{"product_id":"9780226923536","title":"Bleak Liberalism","description":"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. \u003ci\u003eBleak Liberalism\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBleak House\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHard Times\u003c\/i\u003e to E. M. Forster’s \u003ci\u003eHowards End\u003c\/i\u003e to Doris Lessing’s \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e, this literature demonstrates that liberalism has inventive ways of balancing sociological critique and moral aspiration. A deft blend of intellectual history and literary analysis, \u003ci\u003eBleak Liberalism\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a richer understanding of one of the most important political ideologies of the modern era.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167071060208,"sku":"9780226923536","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226923536_p0.jpg?v=1763674817","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226923536","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}