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List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Towards a New Literary Humanism; A. Mousley
PART I: LITERATURE AS ERSATZ THEOLOGY: DEEP SELVES
Introduction; A. Mousley
Faith, Feeling, Reality: Anne Brontë as an Existentialist Poet; R. Styler
Virginia Woolf, Sympathy and Feeling for the Human; K. Martin
Being Human and being Animal in Twentieth-Century Horse-Whispering Writings: 'Word-Bound Creatures' and 'the Breath of Horses'; E. Graham
Judith Butler and the Catachretic Human; I. Arteel
PART II: SCEPTICISM, OR HUMANISM AT THE LIMIT
Introduction; A. Mousley
Shakespeare's Refusers: Humanism at the Limit; R. Chamberlain
Why Eliot Killed Lydgate: 'Joyful Cruelty' in Middlemarch; S. Earnshaw
Atomised: Mary Midgley and Michel Houellebecq; J. Wallace
Humanity without Itself: Robert Musil, Giorgio Agamben and Posthumanism; I. Callus & S. Herbrechter
PART III: LITERATURE, DEMOCRACY, HUMANISMS FROM BELOW
Introduction; A. Mousley
Mobilising Unbribable Life: The Politics of Contemporary Poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina; D. Arsenijevic
HUM (-an, -ane, -anity, -anities, -anism, -anise); M. Robson
Humanising Marx: Theory and Fiction in the Fin de Siècle British Socialist Periodical; D. Mutch
Civic Humanism: Said, Brecht and Coriolanus; N. Wood
References
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Towards a new literary humanism. ISBN 9780230238152. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
