Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens

Download or read book Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens written by Maureen Whitebrook and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maureen Whitebrook argues that literature, through both its form and its content, can expose and criticize liberal theory and point beyond it to a new political theory. She describes how 'literary political criticism' might be done, and demonstrates such criticism in four essays that expose the connections between specific political and literary texts. Fiction, Whitebrook concludes, does a better job than liberal political theory of examining the relationship between the individual and the State.