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Voices of Anger and Hope: Studies in the Literature of Labour and Socialism
Contributor(s): Klaus, H. Gustav (Author)
ISBN: 1912224445     ISBN-13: 9781912224449
Publisher: Edward Everett Root
OUR PRICE:   $90.20  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: November 2018
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- History | Social History
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.92 lbs) 1 pages
 
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The leading historian in this field here offers a number of specific studies which do much to illuminate the politics, literature and culture of alternative visions.

Contents: Introduction. "Moral Force" and "Physical Force" in the Poetry of Chartism: John Mitchell and David Wright of Aberdeen; Mrs Rochester and Mr Cooper: Alternative Visions of Class, History and Rebellion in the "Hungry Forties"; Voices of Anger and Hope from the 1840s to the 1940s: Hugh Williams, T.E. Nicholas and Idris Davies; Bart Kennedy: Hater of Slavery, Tramp and Professor of Walking; Rebels on the Stage: Turn-of-the-Century Plays by Wilde, Galsworthy, Jones and Lawrence; The Shipbuilders' Story; Felled Trees - Fallen Soldiers; Individual, Community and Conflict in Scottish Working-Class Fiction, 1920-1940; Genteel Anarchism: Herbert Read's Poetry of Two Wars; Foregrounding the Kitchen: Everyday Domestic Life in Painting and Drama (with illustrations); Anti-authoritarianism in James Kelman's Late-Twentieth-Century Fiction; John Burnside's Living Nowhere as Industrial Fiction. Index.

Contributor Bio(s): Klaus, H. Gustav: - H. GUSTAV KLAUS is Emeritus Professor of the Literature of the British Isles, University of Rostock, Germany. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland, a Research Fellow at the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, and a Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His more recent books include Factory Girl (1998) and James Kelman (2004) as well as the co-edited collections British Industrial Fictions (2000), 'To Hell with Culture': Anarchism and Twentieth-Century British Literature (2005) and Ecology and the Literature of the British Left: The Red and the Green (2012). His The Literature of Labour: Two Hundred Years of Working-Class Writing, and the edited essay collections The Socialist Novel in Britain and The Rise of Socialist Fiction, 1880-1914, all with new introductions, are also available again from EER.