Voices of Anger and Hope: Studies in the Literature of Labour and Socialism

By H. Gustav Klaus

Book Overview

The leading historian in this field here offers a number of specific studies which do much to illuminate the politics, literature and culture of alternative visions.

Contents: Introduction. "Moral Force" and "Physical Force" in the Poetry of Chartism: John Mitchell and David Wright of Aberdeen; Mrs Rochester and Mr Cooper: Alternative Visions of Class, History and Rebellion in the "Hungry Forties"; Voices of Anger and Hope from the 1840s to the 1940s: Hugh Williams, T.E. Nicholas and Idris Davies; Bart Kennedy: Hater of Slavery, Tramp and Professor of Walking; Rebels on the Stage: Turn-of-the-Century Plays by Wilde, Galsworthy, Jones and Lawrence; The Shipbuilders' Story; Felled Trees - Fallen Soldiers; Individual, Community and Conflict in Scottish Working-Class Fiction, 1920-1940; Genteel Anarchism: Herbert Read's Poetry of Two Wars; Foregrounding the Kitchen: Everyday Domestic Life in Painting and Drama (with illustrations); Anti-authoritarianism in James Kelman's Late-Twentieth-Century Fiction; John Burnside's Living Nowhere as Industrial Fiction. Index.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912224445
• ISBN13: 9781912224449
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Edward Everett Root
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"