"This book maps the rise of a modern liberal culture in the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s. It shows how modern fiction writers responded to central concerns in liberal political thought, such as corporate ownership, reproductive rights, colorblind law, and presidenti…
"Based on archival research, the book provides the first scholarly account of the landscape of the autobahn."--Jacket.
Introduction: Writers on Trial -- Blasphemy: Progressives, Literary Ethics, and the Case of Burning Embers -- Obscenity: Manto's Texts, Manto's Trials -- Sedition: A Poet, a Plot, and Pakistan's First Conspiracy Case -- Feminist Literary Ethics and Censorship -- Epilogue. "In t…
"This is a sustained argument about the idea of science fiction by a renowned critic. Overturning many received opinions and sacred cows, it is both controversial and stimulating." "Much of the controversy arises from Westfahl's resurrection of Hugo Gernsback - for decades a lar…
'Ressourcement' provides both a historical and a theological analysis of the achievements of the renowned generation of theologians whose influence pervaded French theology and society in the period 1930 to 1960, and beyond.
