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Against Bleak Liberalism: Reclaiming Left Aesthetic at the 2009 Kane Lecture
At the English Department's annual Kane Lecture, Amanda Anderson of Johns Hopkins University talked about her latest book project, which explores the liberal aesthetic in late 19th century realist novels. She suggests that the narrative unity these novels provide offers a way in which the value liberalism places on the individual and on society/social order can be represented coherently in a politically conscious liberal aesthetic, where the presence of both individual voice and a voice representing society curbs the excesses and augments the shortcomings of each.
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