This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it.

This book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capita

In the decades after U.S. independence, American novelists carried on an argument that pitted direct democracy against the representative liberalism they attrib

Bleak liberalism -- Liberalism in the age of high realism -- Revisiting the political novel -- The liberal aesthetic in the postwar era: the case of Trilling an

This book presents J. M. Coetzee's work as a complex, nuanced counterblast to contemporary, global, neoliberal economics and its societies. Not surprisingly, gi