Andrea T. Baumeister / John Horton (eds.)

Literature and the Political Imagination

Herausgeber: Baumeister, Andrea T; Horton, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that literature can make a valuable contribution to political understanding, theory and argument.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780415129152
• ISBN-10: 041512915X
• Artikelnr.: 21904984

Autorenporträt

John Horton is Reader in Political Theory at Keele University., Andrea T. Baumeister is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Literature
philosophy and political theory
John Horton
Andrea T. Baumeister; Chapter 2 Taking the narrative turn
Maureen Whitebrook; Chapter 3 'What of soul was left
I wonder?'
Susan Mendus; Chapter 4 Life
literature and ethical theory
John Horton; Chapter 5 Modes of political imagining
Martin Warner; Chapter 6 Literature and moral choice
Anthony Arblaster; Chapter 7 The aloofness of liberal politics
Paul Seabright; Chapter 8 'Breathes there the man
with soul so dead...'
Margaret Canovan; Chapter 9 The idea of a national literature
Paul Gilbert; Chapter 10 The anti-imperialism of George Orwell
Stephen Ingle; Chapter 11 Contemporary feminist Utopianism
Lucy Sargisson;