Eleanor Marx (1855-1898): Life, Work, Contacts

ISBN-13: 9780754601135 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 208 str.

John Stokes

Opis

In a dozen newly commissioned essays, British scholars of literature and women's studies explore the achievements of Karl Marx's youngest daughter as a feminist and radical socialist, aspiring actress, working journalist, and literary translator. They discuss such topics as revisiting Edward Aveling

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction, John Stokes; ’A daughter of today’: the socialist-feminist intellectual as woman of letters, Lyn Pykett; Fictions of engagement: Eleanor Marx, biographical space, Carolyn Steedman; Revisiting Edward Aveling, William Greenslade; Eleanor Marx and Henrik Ibsen, Sally Ledger; Eleanor Marx and Shakespeare, Gail Marshall; Eleanor Marx and Gustave Flaubert, Faith Evans; The genders of socialism: Eleanor Marx and Oscar Wilde, Ruth Robbins; Socialist feminism and sexual instinct: Eleanor Marx and Amy Levy, Emma Francis; ’Is this friendship?’: Eleanor Marx, Margaret Harkness and the idea of socialist community, Lynne Hapgood; A moment of being: Miss Marx, Miss Pater, ’Miss Ambient’, Laurel Brake; Radical voices: Eleanor Marx and Victoria Woodhull, Bridget Bennett; ’Tantalising glimpses’: the intersecting lives of Eleanor Marx and Mathilde Blind, Simon Avery; Index.

O autorze

John Stokes