Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880-1914

Zusatztext [an] accomplished, often witty and deeply researched exploration Klappentext This book examines the lives and works of a group of writers at the heart of the revival of the socialist movement in Britain. It examines the beliefs and sexual politics of familiar figures like William Morris and George Bernard Shaw alongside those of lesser-known writers and activists like Edward Carpenter and Isabella Ford. Zusammenfassung This book examines the lives and works of a group of writers at the heart of the revival of the socialist movement in Britain. It examines the beliefs and sexual politics of familiar figures like William Morris and George Bernard Shaw alongside those of lesser-known writers and activists like Edward Carpenter and Isabella Ford. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.: William Morris and the Aesthetics of Manly Labour 2.: Politics, Fellowship and Romance: Clementina Black and the Culture of Socialism in 1880s London 3.: Olive Schreiner and the Dream of Labour 4.: Socialism, Masculinity and the 'Faddist' Sage: Edward Carpenter and George Bernard Shaw 5.: Dollie Radford and the Ethical Aesthetics of Fin-de-Siècle Poetry 6.: Engendering the New Age: Isabella Ford and Alfred Orage 7.: Legacies: Socialist Aesthetics and the Modernist Generation

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• Authors: Livesey, Ruth Livesey, Ruth (Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Deputy Director Livesey, Livesey Ruth
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2008
• EAN: 9780197263983
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726398-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 248 mm x 32 mm
• Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral F; British Academy Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral F
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000