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Author:   Mark Zunac ,  Mark Bauerlein ,  D. Marcel DeCoste ,  Mary Grabar
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9781498512404

ISBN 10:   1498512402
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   24 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword: What Graduate School Was For Mark Bauerlein Preface Part 1: The State of the Academy 1)Conservatism, Liberal Education, and the Promise of the Humanities Mark Zunac Part 2: The Conservative Critical Tradition 2)Early Leavis: Who He Was, and What He Is Thomas Jeffers 3)Toward a Conservative Aesthetic: The American New Critics Thomas Stanford III Part 3: Reviving the Canon: Some Reconsiderations 4)Popular Reception of Shakespeare's Shylock in The Merchant of Venice Todd H.J. Pettigrew 5)Carlyle the Wise Barton Swaim 6)Conservatism and the Genteel Tradition: George Santayana and Henry James James Seaton 7)‘Tony madly feudal’: Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust and the Conservative Critique of Secular Conservatism D. Marcel DeCoste Part 4: Non-Canonical Texts 8)Private Property and the Anti-Jacobin Defense of Liberty and the Nation Mark Zunac 9)Black and American: George Schuyler’s Battle against Black Separatism Mary Grabar About the Contributors Index

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Scholarship on conservative literary traditions, conservative approaches to literary analysis, and conservative writers has become increasingly rare in the Humanities. I welcome with more than ordinary gratitude the wisdom and moral balance of these otherwise silenced voices.  -- Ruth Wisse, Harvard University

Scholarship on conservative literary traditions, conservative approaches to literary analysis, and conservative writers has become increasingly rare in the Humanities. Iwelcome with more than ordinary gratitude the wisdom and moral balance of these otherwise silenced voices.--Ruth Wisse, Harvard University

Scholarship on conservative literary traditions, conservative approaches to literary analysis, and conservative writers has become increasingly rare in the Humanities. I welcome with more than ordinary gratitude the wisdom and moral balance of these otherwise silenced voices. -- Ruth Wisse, Harvard University

Scholarship on conservative literary traditions, conservative approaches to literary analysis, and conservative writers has become increasingly rare in the Humanities. I welcome with more than ordinary gratitude the wisdom and moral balance of these otherwise silenced voices. -- Ruth Wisse, Harvard University

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Mark Zunac is associate professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

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