Overview

This pioneering work traces the history of the socialist novel, covering 150 years of creative writing.It spans the hopes and aspirations of the Chartist writers in Britain and the modern variety of ideological and literary positions of socialist intellectuals.The major conceptual and individual developments are carefully analysed, and the work brings together essays by such distinguished writers as Raymond Williams, John Goode, Raymon Ortega and Marsha Vicinus.It proves a framework for wider discussion, situating the socialist novel in the overall framework of English literature.

Full Product Details

Author:   H. Gustav Klaus
Publisher:   Edward Everett Root
Imprint:   Edward Everett Root
Edition:   2nd edition
ISBN:  

9781911454953

ISBN 10:   1911454951
Publication Date:   31 July 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General/trade ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Contents: New, and original, Editor's Introduction; Martha Vicinus, 'Chartist fiction and he development of a class-based literature'; J.M. Rignall, 'Between Chartism and the 1880s: J.W. Overton and E. Lynn Linton'; John Goode, 'Margaret Harkness and the socialist novel;'; Jack Mitchell, 'Early harvest: three anti-capitalist novels published in 1914'; H. Gustav Klaus, 'Silhouettes of revolution: some neglected novels of the early 1920s'; Raymond Williams, 'Working-class, proletarian, socialist: problems in some Welsh novels'; Raymon Lopez Ortega, 'The language of the working-class novel of the 1930s'; Ingrid von Rosenberg, 'Militancy, anger and resignation: alternative moods in the working-class novel of the 1950s and early 1960s'; Kiernan Ryan, 'Socialist fiction and the education of desire: Mervyn Jones, Raymond Williams, John Berger'; Index.

Reviews

Author Information

H. Gustav Klaus is Professor of the Literature of the British Isles, Universitat Rostock, Germany. He has held visiting posts as visiting Professor, University of Queensland; Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh and visiting Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His several publications include: The Rise of socialist fiction, 1880-1914 (1987), Factory Girl (1998) and (as co-editor) British Industrial Fiction (2000), James Kelman (2004), To hell with culture: anarchism and twentieth-century British literature (2005).

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions