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Informationen zum Autor Anna Vaninskaya spent equal portions of her life in Russia, America, and Britain. She received her doctorate in English Literature from Oxford University, worked as a research fellow at King's College, Cambridge and with the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, and is now a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include nineteenth-century socialism, popular reading, and historical cultures, the history of education and the work of writers such as Morris, Wells, Chesterton, Orwell, and Tolkien. Klappentext Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian CultureSeries Editor: Julian WolfreysDrawing on provocative research, volumes in the series provide timely revisions of the nineteenth-century's literature and culture.William Morris and the Idea of CommunityRomance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914Anna Vaninskaya'Literature, history and politics - William Morris's task of building socialism in a capitalist world required action on all three fronts. Anna Vaninskaya's authoritative, lucid and yet passionate book provides a confident guide to all three fronts and to the wider world of Victorian understandings of community and civilization.'Peter Mandler, Professor of Modern Cultural History, University of CambridgeThe great polymath William Morris and his contemporaries and followers - from H. Rider Haggard to H. G. Wells - are the focus of this study. Anna Vaninskaya draws upon a wide array of primary sources: from working-class fiction and articles in fringe socialist newspapers to historical treatises, autobiographies and diaries, in order to explore the many ways Victorians and Edwardians talked about community and modernity.Vaninskaya's narrative moves from the realm of romance bestsellers and sniggering reviews to debates in weighty historical tomes, and then to the headquarters of revolutionary parties, to street-corners and shabby lecture halls. She demonstrates how in each domain the dream of community clashed with the reality of the modern state and market.Anna Vaninskaya is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Zusammenfassung The great polymath William Morris and his contemporaries and followers - from H. Rider Haggard to H. G. Wells - are the focus of this study. Anna Vaninskaya draws widely on primary sources to explore the many ways Victorians and Edwardians talked about community and modernity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; I. ROMANCE; 1. The Romance Revival; 2. The Paradoxes of Mr Morris; II. HISTORY; 3. The Dark Ages; 4. The Middle Ages; III. PROPAGANDA; 5. Socialist Hybrids; 6. Education and Association; Bibliography; Index....
