The Parisian Communards fought for a vision of internationalism, radical democracy and economic justice for the working masses that cut across national borders. Its eventual defeat resonated far beyond Paris. Literature and Revolution examines how authors in Britain projected their hopes and fears in literary representations of the Commune.
The Parisian Communards fought for a vision of internationalism, radical democracy and economic justice for the working masses that cut across national borders. Its eventual defeat resonated far beyond Paris. Literature and Revolution examines how authors in Britain projected their hopes and fears in literary representations of the Commune.
OWEN HOLLAND has taught nineteenth-century literature at Jesus College, Oxford and in the English Department at University College London. His first monograph, William Morris's Utopianism: Propaganda, Politics and Prefiguration, was published in 2017, and he has also edited a selection of Morris's political writings for Verso.
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Preface 1 Introduction: A Commune in Literature 2 Refugees, Renegades, and Misrepresentation: Edward Bulwer Lytton and Eliza Lynn Linton 3 Dangerous Sympathies: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, and Margaret Oliphant 4 "Dreams of the Coming Revolution": George Gissing's Workers in the Dawn 5 Revolution and Ressentiment: Henry James's The Princess Casamassima 6 The Uses of Tragedy: Alfred Austin's The Human Tragedy and William Morris's The Pilgrims of Hope 7 "It Had to Come Back": H. G. Wells's When the Sleeper Wakes 8 Conclusion: Looking without Seeing Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography
Preface 1 Introduction: A Commune in Literature 2 Refugees, Renegades, and Misrepresentation: Edward Bulwer Lytton and Eliza Lynn Linton 3 Dangerous Sympathies: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, and Margaret Oliphant 4 "Dreams of the Coming Revolution": George Gissing's Workers in the Dawn 5 Revolution and Ressentiment: Henry James's The Princess Casamassima 6 The Uses of Tragedy: Alfred Austin's The Human Tragedy and William Morris's The Pilgrims of Hope 7 "It Had to Come Back": H. G. Wells's When the Sleeper Wakes 8 Conclusion: Looking without Seeing Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography
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