Literature and Revolution : : British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871 / / Owen Holland.
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 Com...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reinventions of the Paris Commune
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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
- Index
- About the Author