TY - BOOK AU - McGowan,John ED - Project Muse. TI - Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics SN - 9781501720963 AV - PN94 .M35 2002 U1 - 801/.95/0904 21 PB - Cornell University Press KW - Intellectual life KW - History KW - 20th century KW - College teaching KW - United States KW - Criticism KW - Political aspects KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-237) and index; Machine generated contents note: Preface, vii -- Introduction: Literary Intellectuals in -- and for a Democratic Society, -- I. CLIMBING THE WALLS: THE INTELLECTUAL AS ACADEMIC -- I. At the 1986 MLA Convention, 31 -- 2. Teaching Literature: Where, How, and Why, 49 -- 3. An ABCs of Post-Theoretical Style, 74 -- 4. Humanists, Cultural Authority, and the University, 114 -- II. ROADS TO THE PRESENT, PATHS TO A FUTURE -- 5. Modernity and Culture: -- The Victorians and Cultural Studies, 141 -- 6. The Narrative of Culture: A Burkean Perspective, 165 -- 7. Toward a Pragmatist Pluralism, 201 -- References, 231 -- Index, 239; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/57422/ ER -