This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English literary discourse from the fin-de-siècle to World War One. It maps out an extensive network of journalists, men of letters and political theorists, showing how their shared political and literary vocabularies offer new readings of liberalism's relation to an emerging modernist culture.

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Jock Macleod is an Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Griffith University, Australia. He is currently editor of the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies.

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Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Advanced Liberalism, Journalism, and Literary Culture 1. Between Literature and Politics: The Massingham Network and the Institutions of Advanced Liberalism 2. The 'Self-Conscious Evolution of Humanity': Advanced Liberalism and the Politics and Culture of 'Life' 3. Advanced Liberalism and the Cultural Value of 'Life': Ethics, Aesthetics, and Political Economy 4. Writing the East End: Advanced Liberalism, Realism and Social Reform 5. Contesting the New: Advanced Liberalism and the Emergence of Modernism Conclusion Bibliography Index