ISBN: 9780197263983

This book brings to life the growth of the socialist movement among men and women artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Britain. For these campaigners, socialism was inseparable … More...

This book brings to life the growth of the socialist movement among men and women artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Britain. For these campaigners, socialism was inseparable from a desire for a new beauty of life; beauty that also, for many, required them rejecting the sexualconventions of the Victorian era. From the early 1880s and well into the twentieth century, the efforts of these writers and activists existed in critical tension with other contemporary developments in literary culture. Livesey maps the ongoing dialogue between socialist writers like William Morris, decadent aesthetes such as OscarWilde and defining figures of early modernism including Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry. She concludes that socialist writers developed a distinct political aesthetic in which the love of beauty was to act as a force for revolutionary change. The book draws on archival research and extensive study of socialist periodicals, together with readings of works by writers including Morris, Wilde, Schreiner, George Bernard Shaw, Isabella Ford, Carpenter, Alfred Orage, Woolf and Fry. Livesey uncovers the lasting influence of socialist writers ofthe 1880s on the emergence of British literary modernism and by tracing the lives of neglected writers and activists such as Clementina Black and Dollie Radford, she provides a vivid evocation of an era in which revolution seemed imminent and the arts a vital route to that future. | Socialism Sex and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain 1880-1914 by Ruth Livesey Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Ruth Livesey<

ISBN: 9780197263983

New. This book brings to life the growth of the socialist movement among men and women artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Britain. For these campaigners, socialism was insepa… More...

New. This book brings to life the growth of the socialist movement among men and women artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Britain. For these campaigners, socialism was inseparable from a desire for a new beauty of life; beauty that also, for many, required them rejecting the sexual conventions of the Victorian era. From the early 1880s and well into the twentieth century, the efforts of these writers and activists existed in critical tension with other contemporary developments in literary culture. Livesey maps the ongoing dialogue between socialist writers like William Morris, decadent aesthetes such as Oscar Wilde and defining figures of early modernism including Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry. She concludes that socialist writers developed a distinct political aesthetic in which the love of beauty was to act as a force for revolutionary change. The book draws on archival research and extensive study of socialist periodicals, together with readings of works by writers including Morris, Wilde, Schreiner, George Bernard Shaw, Isabella Ford, Carpenter, Alfred Orage, Woolf and Fry. Livesey uncovers the lasting influence of socialist writers of the 1880s on the emergence of British literary modernism and by tracing the lives of neglected writers and activists such as Clementina Black and Dollie Radford, she provides a vivid evocation of an era in which revolution seemed imminent and the arts a vital route to that future., 6<

2007, ISBN: 9780197263983

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OUP/British Academy, Hardcover, Auflage: 1st Edition, 246 Seiten, Publiziert: 2007-10-18T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 8 figures, 0.53 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2721838, Great B… More...

OUP/British Academy, Hardcover, Auflage: 1st Edition, 246 Seiten, Publiziert: 2007-10-18T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 8 figures, 0.53 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2721838, Great Britain, Europe, History, Subjects, Books, Social & Cultural, Literary Theory & Movements, History & Criticism, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, Socialism, Political Science & Ideology, Government & Politics, Society, Politics & Philosophy, OUP/British Academy, 2007<

2007, ISBN: 9780197263983

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2007, ISBN: 9780197263983

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