Imagining Socialism - Aesthetics, Anti-Politics, and Literature in Britain, 1817-1918

Explores the intersections of socialism and literature in the long nineteenth century, with special emphasis on their shared antipathy to institutional politics.

List of contents

• Introduction: A Socialist Century


• 1: Society is a Simple and Beautiful Science": Aesthetics and Anti-Politics in Robert Owen's Socialism


• 2: Poetic Vanguardism and Political Violence in Capel Lofft's "Chartist Epic"


• 3: Self-Consuming Socialism: Affect, Ideology, and Aesthetics in the Christian Socialist Movement


• 4: Utopian Socialism, Women's Emancipation, and the Origins of Middlemarch


• 5: "What is to Come After This?": William Morris, News from Nowhere, and the Aesthetics of Fin-de-Siècle Socialism


• Epilogue: The Party Fight

About the author

Mark A. Allison is Associate Professor and Chair of English at Ohio Wesleyan University, where he is also Co-Director of the University Honors Program. His work has appeared in English Literary History (ELH), Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Utopian Studies, among other venues. He is currently working on Anglophone utopian literature in the long nineteenth century, as well as projects concerning socialist, radical, and communitarian authors.

Summary

Explores the intersections of socialism and literature in the long nineteenth century, with special emphasis on their shared antipathy to institutional politics.

Product details

• Authors: Mark A. Allison, Mark A. (Associate Professor and Chair Allison, Allison Mark A.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.04.2021
• EAN: 9780192896490
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289649-0
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form