Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Literature, philosophy and political theory / John Horton and Andrea T. Baumeister -- 2. Taking the narrative turn : what the novel has to offer political theory / Maureen Whitebrook -- 3. "What of soul was left, I wonder?" : the narrative self in political philosophy / Susan Mendus -- 4. Life, literature and ethical theory : Martha Nussbaum on the role of the literary imagination in ethical thought / John Horton -- 5. Modes of political imagining / Martin Warner -- 6. Literature and moral choice / Anthony Arblaster -- 7. The aloofness of liberal politics : can imaginative literature furnish a private space? / Paul Seabright -- 8. "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead ..." : reflections on patriotic poetry and liberal principles Margaret Canovan -- 9. The idea of a national literature / Paul Gilbert -- 10. The anti-imperialism of George Orwell / Stephen Ingle -- 11. Contemporary feminist Utopianism : practising Utopia on Utopia / Lucy Sargisson.

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