Daniel Born explores the concept of liberal guilt as it first
developed in British political and literary culture between the
late Romantic period and World War I. Disturbed by the twin
spectacle of urban poverty at home and imperialism abroad, major
novelists--including Charles Dickens, George Eliot, George Gissing,
Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, and H. G. Wells--offered a host of
characters who reflect distinct moral responses and sensibilities.
Motivated by the belief that evil is a product of social and
economic disparities rather than individual depravity, these
characters exhibit guilty consciences in which the guilt is not at
all like that envisioned by Victorian Christianity. But at the same
time, they are premodern, in that they do not possess our
therapeutic culture's notion of guilt as neurosis or pathology.
Liberal guilt declined in the Edwardian period, as exemplified
in Wells's postmodern masterpiece, "Tono-Bungay," But Born contends
that it is a key aspect of 'the liberal imagination' expounded by
Lionel Trilling and that it offers correctives to the simplistic
individual moral economy of Christianity, the authoritarian
modernisms that followed the Edwardian era, and even the strains of
liberal nationalism that define the present day.
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