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In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adherents who identified with and expressed it as opinion. It was also the first British political movement to depend more on people than property, and on opinion rather than interest. But how would these subjects of liberal politics actually live liberalism? To answer this question, Elaine Hadley focuses on the key concept of individuation-how it is embodied in politics and daily life and how it is expressed through opinion, discussion and sincerity. These are concerns that have been absent from commentary on the liberal subject. Living Liberalism argues that the properties of liberalism-citizenship, the vote, the candidate, and reform, among others-were developed in response to a chaotic and antagonistic world. In exploring how political liberalism imagined its impact on Victorian society, Hadley reveals an entirely new and unexpected prehistory of our modern liberal politics. A major revisionist account that alters our sense of the trajectory of liberalism, Living Liberalism revises our understanding of the presumption of the liberal subject.
Liberalism --- History --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- victorian, england, britain, citizenship, liberalism, party politics, legislation, law, individuation, individualism, agency, vote, reform, history, nonfiction, government, gladstone, irish question, fortnightly review, ballot, voting rights, political engagement, voice, public opinion, anonymity, election, corruption, influence, utilitarianism, telegraph act, tenant right league, sympathy, suffrage, sincerity, character, honor, religion, rawls, rationality, radicalism, populism, panopticon.
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Dissenters in literature. --- English drama --- English literature --- Literature and society --- Melodrama, English --- Social problems in literature. --- Theater and society --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism. --- History
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Focusing on the transition from political economy to economics, this volume seeks to restore social content to economic abstractions through readings of nineteenth-century British and American literature. The essays gathered here, by new as well as established scholars of literature and economics, link important nineteenth-century texts and histories with present-day issues such as exploitation, income inequality, globalization, energy consumption, property ownership and rent, human capital, corporate power, and environmental degradation. Organized according to key concepts for future research, the collection has a clear interdisciplinary, humanities approach and international reach. These diverse essays will interest students and scholars in literature, history, political science, economics, sociology, law, and cultural studies, in addition to readers generally interested in the Victorian period.
Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Literature-History and criticism. --- Economic history. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Literary History. --- Economic History. --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Literature—History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern --- Literature --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- 19th century. --- History and criticism. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation
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