Literature and Revolution: British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871 by Holland, Owen
Literature and Revolution: British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871 by Holland, Owen

Literature and Revolution: British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871

Between March and May 1871, the Parisian Communards fought for a revolutionary alternative to the status quo...
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Author: Owen Holland
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Literature and Revolution: British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871 by Holland, Owen

Literature and Revolution: British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871

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Literature and Revolution: British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871 by Holland, Owen

Literature and Revolution: British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871

BD$89.88
Author: Owen Holland
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 Commune resonated far beyond Paris. In Britain, the Commune provoked widespread and fierce condemnation, while its defenders constituted a small, but vocal, minority. The Commune evoked long-standing fears about the continental 'spectre' of revolution, not least because the Communards' seizure of power represented an embryonic alternative to the bourgeois social order.

This book examines how a heterogeneous group of authors in Britain responded to the Commune. In doing so, it provides the first full-length critical study of the reception and representation of the Commune in Britain during the closing decades of the nineteenth century, showing how discussions of the Commune functioned as a screen to project hope and fear, serving as a warning for some and an example to others. Writers considered in the book include John Ruskin, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eliza Lynn Linton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Margaret Oliphant, George Gissing, Henry James, William Morris, Alfred Austin and H.G. Wells. As the book shows, many, but not all, of these writers responded to the Commune with literary strategies that sought to stabilize bourgeois subjectivity in the wake of the traumatic shock of a revolutionary event. The book extends critical understanding of the Commune's cultural afterlives and explores the relationship between literature and revolution.

Author: Owen Holland
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 03/18/2022
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781978821934

About the Author
OWEN HOLLAND has taught nineteenth-century literature at Jesus College, Oxford and in the English Department at University College London. His first monograph, William Morris's Utopianism: Propaganda, Politics and Prefiguration, was published in 2017, and he has also edited a selection of Morris's political writings for Verso.
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