Imagining Socialism: Aesthetics, Anti-Politics, and Literature in Britain, 1817-1918

ISBN-13: 9780192896490 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 288 str.

Mark A. Allison

Recenzje

In Imagining Socialism, Mark A. Allison takes as his subject the entanglement of nineteenth-century British socialism with artistic, literary, and other aesthetic endeavours. This is by no means a new project: Ian Britain, Ruth Livesey, Diana Maltz and Chris Waters, among others, have noted the central role aesthetics played in late nineteenth-century socialist circles. What makes Allison's Imagining Socialism unique, however, is its association of the creative and artistic socialism that emerged towards the end of the century ...

O autorze

Mark A. Allison is Associate Professor and Chair of English at Ohio Wesleyan University, where he is also Co-Director of the University Honors Program. His work has appeared in English Literary History (ELH), Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Utopian Studies, among other venues. He is currently working on Anglophone utopian literature in the long nineteenth century, as well as projects concerning socialist, radical, and communitarian authors.