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H. Gustav Klaus Livres
Leading scholars combine here a sustained attempt to trace the growth of socialist fiction in the crucial period of the formation of the modern British labour movement. While the importance of the long-neglected literary tradition is now recognised, no other studies have been as comprehensive as this collection. The essays here go beyond the limited concentration on slum fiction which long characterised studies. The remit of this work is the exploration of the emergence of the alternative tradition in English literature, the relationship between socialist fiction and the mainstream. The work also connects the British contribution with the European socialist novel.
This pioneering work traces the history of the socialist novel, covering 150 years of creative writing. It spans the hopes and aspirations of the Chartist writers in Britain and the modern variety of ideological and literary positions of socialist intellectuals. The major conceptual and individual developments are carefully analysed, and the work brings together essays by such distinguished writers as Raymond Williams, John Goode, Raym n Ortega and Marsha Vicinus. It proves a framework for wider discussion, situating the socialist novel in the overall framework of English literature. Contents: New, and original, Editor's Introduction; Martha Vicinus, 'Chartist fiction and he development of a class-based literature'; J.M. Rignall, 'Between Chartism and the 1880s: J.W. Overton and E. Lynn Linton'; John Goode, 'Margaret Harkness and the socialist novel;'; Jack Mitchell, 'Early harvest: three anti-capitalist novels published in 1914'; H. Gustav Klaus, 'Silhouettes of revolution: some neglected novels of the early 1920s'; Raymond Williams, 'Working-class, proletarian, socialist: problems in some Welsh novels'; Raym n L pez Ortega, 'The language of the working-class novel of the 1930s'; Ingrid von Rosenberg, 'Militancy, anger and resignation: alternative moods in the working-class novel of the 1950s and early 1960s'; Kiernan Ryan, 'Socialist fiction and the education of desire: Mervyn Jones, Raymond Williams, John Berger'; Index.
This innovative work is established as the substantive exploration of the literary endeavours of working people and socialists over 200 years. H. Gustav Klaus challenges the complacent assumptions about working class and socialist literature as merely a "symptom", arguing that the literature of labour is an integral part of the historical development of the working class and deserves much closer attention. This work breaks away from the 'Great Tradition' and in revealing the rich source of creativity within the literature of labour, introduces an alternative tradition of English literature.
