001477702 000__ 05066nam\a22007815i\4500 001477702 001__ 1477702 001477702 003__ DE-B1597 001477702 005__ 20231026034824.0 001477702 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477702 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477702 008__ 230103t20222012nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477702 020__ $$a9780823290826 001477702 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823290826$$2doi 001477702 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)565902 001477702 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1306539823 001477702 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477702 0410_ $$aeng 001477702 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477702 072_7 $$aLIT004020$$2bisacsh 001477702 1001_ $$aDuring, Simon, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477702 24510 $$aAgainst Democracy :$$bLiterary Experience in the Era of Emancipations /$$cSimon During. 001477702 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2022] 001477702 264_4 $$c©2012 001477702 300__ $$a1 online resource (192 p.) 001477702 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477702 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477702 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477702 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477702 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tPreface -- $$tOne. Democracy Today -- $$tTwo. Reform or Refusal? Living in Democratic Capitalism -- $$tThree. Conservatism and Critique -- $$tFour. Literary Criticism's Failure -- $$tFive. The Literary Origins of Modern Democracy -- $$tSix. Howards End's Socialism -- $$tSeven. Saul Bellow and the Antinomies of Democratic Experience -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex 001477702 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477702 520__ $$aThis book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capitalism. Democracy has become fundamental: It extends deeper and deeper into everyday life; it grounds and limits our political thought and values. That is the sense in which we do indeed live at history's end. But this end is not a happy one, because the system that we now have does not satisfy tests that we can legitimately put to it. In this situation, it is important to come to new terms with the fact that literature, at least until about 1945, was predominantly hostile to political democracy. Literature's deep-seated conservative, counterdemocratic tendencies, along with its capacity to make important distinctions among political, cultural, and experiential democracies and its capacity to uncover hidden, nonpolitical democracies in everyday life, is now a resource not just for cultural conservatives but for all those who take a critical attitude toward the current political, cultural, and economic structures. Literature, and certain novelists in particular, helps us not so much to imagine social possibilities beyond democracy as to understand how life might be lived both in and outside democratic state capitalism. Drawing on political theory, intellectual history, and the techniques of close reading, Against Democracy offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing democracy, of literary criticism's contribution to that ethos, and of the history of conservatism, as well as innovative interpretations of a range of writers, including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Saul Bellow. 001477702 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477702 546__ $$aIn English. 001477702 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) 001477702 650_7 $$aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.$$2bisacsh 001477702 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001477702 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tFordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014$$z9783111189604 001477702 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tFordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110707298 001477702 7760_ $$cprint$$z9780823242559 001477702 852__ $$bebk 001477702 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823290826$$zOnline Access 001477702 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1477702$$pGLOBAL_SET 001477702 912__ $$a978-3-11-070729-8 Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001477702 912__ $$a978-3-11-118960-4 Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014$$b2014 001477702 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001477702 912__ $$aEBA_CL_LT 001477702 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001477702 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001477702 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_LT 001477702 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001477702 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001477702 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001477702 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001477702 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001477702 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001477702 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001477702 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001477702 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001477702 980__ $$aBIB 001477702 980__ $$aEBOOK 001477702 982__ $$aEbook 001477702 983__ $$aOnline