Literary / Liberal Entanglements: Toward a Literary History for the Twenty-First Century

Introduction

Corrinne Harol and Mark Simpson

I Acting: Liberal Subjects and Objects

1. Posthuman Capital, or I ♥ Apocalypse

Jennifer Ashton

2. The Wish to Be an Object

Aaron Kunin

II Socializing: Aesthetic Autonomies and Collectivities

3. Full Content: Shaw’s Paratexts, Social Liberalism, and Harmonization

Michael, Meeuwis

4. Refreshments of Revolutionary Mood

Jonathan Flatley

III Discriminating: Liberal Ethics and Literary Aesthetics

5. Playing at Judgment: Aporias of Liberal Freedom in Kant’s Critique of Judgment

Vivasvan Soni

6. In Frankenberg’s Cafeteria: The Small Worlds of Highsmith’s The Price of Salt

Heather Love

IV Recounting: Literary Evidence and Liberal Narration

7. The Proletarian Thirties and Canadian Literary History

Andrea Hasenbank

8. The Corporate Reconstruction of American Literary History

Jason Potts

V Culturing: Economics, Institutions and the Imagination

9. The Empire Digs Back: Kew Gardens, the Assistant for India, and the Problem of Knowledge Production after Empire

Sina Rahmani

10. “They Make Their Own Tragedies, Too”: Harvey Swados and Postwar Liberalism’s Discourse of Dependency 389

Sean McCann

Contributors

Index