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Literature and Revolution : British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871

"Between March and May 1871, the Parisian Communards fought for a revolutionary alternative to the status quo grounded in a vision of internationalism, radical democracy and economic justice for the working masses that cut across national borders. The eventual defeat and bloody suppression of t...

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Autor principal: Holland, Owen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Preface --  |t 1. Introduction: A Commune in Literature --  |t 2. Refugees, Renegades, and Misrepresentation: Edward Bulwer Lytton and Eliza Lynn Linton --  |t 3. Dangerous Sympathies: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, and Margaret Oliphant --  |t 4. "Dreams of the Coming Revolution": George Gissing's Workers in the Dawn --  |t 5. Revolution and Ressentiment: Henry James's The Princess Casamassima --  |t 6. The Uses of Tragedy: Alfred Austin's The Human Tragedy and William Morris's The Pilgrims of Hope --  |t 7. "It Had to Come Back": H. G. Wells's When the Sleeper Wakes --  |t 8. Conclusion: Looking without Seeing --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Notes --  |t Bibliography --  |t Index --  |t About the Author 
520 |a "Between March and May 1871, the Parisian Communards fought for a revolutionary alternative to the status quo grounded in a vision of internationalism, radical democracy and economic justice for the working masses that cut across national borders. The eventual defeat and bloody suppression of the Commune resonated far beyond Paris. In Britain, the Commune provoked widespread and fierce condemnation, while its defenders constituted a small, but vocal, minority. The Commune evoked long-standing fears about the continental 'spectre' of revolution, not least because the Communards' seizure of power represented an embryonic alternative to the bourgeois social order. This book examines how a heterogeneous group of authors in Britain responded to the Commune. In doing so, it provides the first full-length critical study of the reception and representation of the Commune in Britain during the closing decades of the nineteenth century, showing how discussions of the Commune functioned as a screen to project hope and fear, serving as a warning for some and an example to others. Writers considered in the book include John Ruskin, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eliza Lynn Linton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Margaret Oliphant, George Gissing, Henry James, William Morris, Alfred Austin and H.G. Wells. As the book shows, many, but not all, of these writers responded to the Commune with literary strategies that sought to stabilise bourgeois subjectivity in the wake of the traumatic shock of a revolutionary event. The book extends critical understanding of the Commune's cultural afterlives and explores the relationship between literature and revolution"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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