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  1. Literature for a society of equals
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    "Literature for a Society of Equals defends modern equality and seeks its best literature. It accuses equality's supposed friends on the left of attenuating this world-redefining relationship into a collection of rights and goods to distribute,... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    2023 A 11054
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    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
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    "Literature for a Society of Equals defends modern equality and seeks its best literature. It accuses equality's supposed friends on the left of attenuating this world-redefining relationship into a collection of rights and goods to distribute, secularizing it even as the right keeps sacralizing hierarchies, and optimistically handing it over to time to make it happen. In contrast, loyal to equality as modernity's revolutionary invention, the writers examined here-from Mary Shelley to Gwendolyn Brooks to Ta-Nehisi Coates-envision "relational equality" as lately recovered by philosophers like Elizabeth Anderson and historians like Pierre Rosanvallon. Literary scholars need to reread these "pessimist egalitarians," too, though, for the discipline has failed them in the same three ways: i.e., attenuating and secularizing these writers' portraits of equality but most of all insisting the sympathy generated by reading these texts will, with enough time, "expand the circle" of humanity. For students and teachers of literature at the university level, this volume is a guide to those writings that champion equality as relational, sacred, and ours-not time's-to realize"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781032494234; 9781032494302
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    RVK Categories: EC 2100
    Series: Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature
    Subjects: Equality in literature; Literature and society; Literature, Modern; Literatursoziologie; Literary criticism
    Scope: viii, 230 Seiten
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Literature for a society of equals
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; London

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781032494234; 9781032494302
    RVK Categories: EC 2100 ; HG 120
    Series: Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature
    Other subjects: Equality in literature; Literature and society; Literature, Modern / History and criticism; Literary criticism
    Scope: VIII, 230 Seiten
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  3. Literature for a Society of Equals
    Published: 2023; ©2023
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Group, Milton

    Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Works Cited -- Part I: Equality -- Chapter 1: Attenuation: Equality as Mere Opportunity -- Works Cited --... more

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    Technische Universität Chemnitz, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Works Cited -- Part I: Equality -- Chapter 1: Attenuation: Equality as Mere Opportunity -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: Secularism: Equality as Unworthy of Exaltation -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Optimism: Equality as Inevitable -- Works Cited -- Part II: Pessimism -- Chapter 4: Canonical Pessimist Egalitarians -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: Expanding the Canon -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Contemporary Pessimist Egalitarians -- Works Cited -- Part III: Reciprocity -- Chapter 7: Reciprocity as a Practice -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: Reciprocity as a Theme -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: Reciprocity as a Form -- Works Cited -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781000962949
    Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Series
    Subjects: Equality in literature; Literature and society; Literature, Modern-History and criticism
    Scope: 1 online resource (241 pages)
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