Why is liberalism so often dismissed by thinkers from both the left and the right? To those calling for wholesale transformation or claiming a monopoly on “realistic” conceptions of humanity, liberalism’s assured progressivism can seem hard to swallow. Bleak Liberalism makes the case for a renewed understanding of the liberal tradition, showing that it is much more attuned to the complexity of political life than conventional accounts have acknowledged. Amanda Anderson examines canonical works of high realism, political novels from England and the United States, and modernist works to argue that liberalism has engaged sober and even stark views of historical development, political dynamics, and human and social psychology. From Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Hard Times to E. M. Forster’s Howards End to Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, this literature demonstrates that liberalism has inventive ways of balancing sociological critique and moral aspiration. A deft blend of intellectual history and literary analysis, Bleak Liberalism reveals a richer understanding of one of the most important political ideologies of the modern era.

Product Description: This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot’s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism. It features innovative analysis ­exploring the relation between Eliot’s Victorian intellectual sensibilities and those of our own era...read more

Twin sisters, one with the gift of prophecy, the other with remarkable language skills, are sold into slavery to the Aztecs and find themselves on opposites sides in the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. Original.

Product Description: Lita Howard longs for the perfect life with the man she has been waiting on for six years. When she finally realizes that her childhood dreams will never be and sets her beau free she thinks she will be able to enjoy her freedom, until the unthinkable happens...read more

Product Description: Meredith Richardson had struggled her whole life. First with the fact that she had no father, then with her teenage pregnancy and marriage, later she struggled with her husband’s illness and death. Her life seemed to be one trial after another and all she could do was survive and attempt to give her young daughter a stable life...read more

Product Description: Euan MacTern has fought an all encompassing darkness for fifteen years. He had no understanding of why it tormented his soul with its evil, but he fought it hoping to find a way to escape it. The laughter of a silver haired beauty gave him the first glimpse of freedom, but when he wanted to claim her the darkness fought him...read more

Product Description: Marshall Braden Montgomery finds an unexpected surprise when he breaks up a brawl at the local saloon. He drags a young boy to jail only to find out that it’s a girl that he’s arrested. When he learns that she is the infamous bounty hunter called The Angel of Vengeance he is more than a little surprised...read more

Product Description: Rileigh Livingston wants a normal life and a loving family. The problem is she is famous and her family has turned their backs on her. In her attempt to recover from an auto accident, which cost her the child she hungered for and the parents that she adored, she moves to a remote town in North West Georgia...read more

Product Description: This is a full length novel at 40,000+ words The Feud between the Johnsons and the Emersons had been going on for over seventy-five years, so how would it ever end? When two young lovers discover passion in the dark of the night, they decide to keep their identities a secret, somehow fearing that it would ruin what they were finding with each other...read more

Product Description: Matilda Dupree has loved her brother's best friend for most of her life, but he's never seen her as anything but a tomboy who tagged along behind him...or so she thinks. Can Ned convince her that he does in fact see her as a woman and wants to settle down with her for all time? When he plays poker with her father and wins her family's ranch he thinks he's found a way to win her, but he forgot one thing...read more

Product Description: This book is about a little hamster named Larry who spends the day at the zoo. He meets all different animals, learns how to count to ten, and learns new names as well.

How do the ways we argue represent a practical philosophy or a way of life? Are concepts of character and ethos pertinent to our understanding of academic debate? In this book, Amanda Anderson analyzes arguments in literary, cultural, and political theory, with special attention to the ways in which theorists understand ideals of critical distance, forms of subjective experience, and the determinants of belief and practice. Drawing on the resources of the liberal and rationalist tradition, Anderson interrogates the limits of identity politics and poststructuralism while holding to the importance of theory as a form of life. Considering high-profile trends as well as less noted patterns of argument, The Way We Argue Now addresses work in feminism, new historicism, queer theory, postcolonialism, cosmopolitanism, pragmatism, and proceduralism. The essays brought together here--lucid, precise, rigorously argued--combine pointed critique with an appreciative assessment of the productive internal contests and creative developments across these influential bodies of thought. Ultimately, The Way We Argue Now promotes a revitalized culture of argument through a richer understanding of the ways critical reason is practiced at the individual, collective, and institutional levels. Bringing to the fore the complexities of academic debate while shifting the terms by which we assess the continued influence of theory, it will appeal to readers interested in political theory, literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and the place of academic culture in society and politics.

Product Description: Contemporary celebrations of interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities and social sciences often harbor a distrust of traditional disciplines, which are seen as at best narrow and unimaginative, and at worst complicit in larger forms of power and policing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Combining analysis of Victorian literature and culture with forceful theoretical argument, The Powers of Distance examines the progressive potential of those forms of cultivated detachment associated with Enlightenment and modern thought...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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