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The highly original ethical trait involved here is based on the capacity of a political society to use its negations against itself and survive. The author suggests that in our own time moral judgments are more likely to be the province of activist politics than literature. His new introduction relates the theme of the book to cultural and political developments in the American experience of modernity and adds a discussion of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams to the figures treated in the original edition. Since tendencies to develop ideological and idiosyncratic responses to extrinsic events have grown stronger over time, it is more important than ever for scholars and students alike to recover a moral imagination--the force that gave rise to the great literary works of the nineteenth century. 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