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Writing and radicalism

John Lucas
Writing and Radicalism is an important volume charting the development of a wide range of radical writing over four centuries. The contributors to the book reveal the variety of literary responses - in poetry, drama, fiction and political essay - to crucial moments of political upheaval and social change. These begin with the Commonwealth period, take in the French Revolution, Chartism, the Suffragette Movement, such key interwar issues as the General Strike and the Spanish Civil War and conclude with the role of women in contemporary society
Print Book, English, 1996
Longman, London, 1996
Aufsatzsammlung
xi, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780582214156, 9780582214149, 0582214157, 0582214149
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1. Introduction / John Lucas
2. Milton's radical epic / Michael Wilding
3. Women and the opposition press after the Restoration / Maureen Bell
4. Two sansculotte poets: John Freeth and Joseph Mather / Charles Hobday
5. 'Beware of reverence': writing and radicalism in the 1790s / Paul O'Flinn
6. Four Jacobin women novelists / Loraine Fletcher
7. Chartism and popular fiction / Steve Devereux
8. Collaboration and co-operation: a contextured-political reading of Edith Simcox's Autobiography of a Shirtmaker / Pauline Polkey
9. The 1920s: radicals to the right and to the left / John Lucas
10. Literature, lying and sober truth: attitudes to the work of Patrick Hamilton and Sylvia Townsend Warner / Arnold Rattenbury
11. ' ... itself irradiated by the thing it attacks'. Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 'One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro' and its political contexts / R.J. Ellis