Title: Nightmares of anarchy : language and cultural change, 1870-1914 /
Authors: Phillips, Wm. M.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press ; Associated University Presses,
Year: 2003
Subjects: English literature History and criticism; Anarchism in literature.; English literature History and criticism; American literature History and criticism; Language and culture Great Britain.; Language and culture United States.; Anarchism Great Britain.; Language and culture English-speaking countries.; Anarchism United States.; Anarchism English-speaking countries.
Abstract: "Nightmares of Anarchy: Language and Cultural Change, 1870-1914 explores the function of the anarchist and anarchist rhetoric in the culture of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and the United States. The author reveals that the figure of the anarchist becomes an important symbol in discussions of social change, and anarchism becomes the germ of several aesthetic discourses of the early twentieth century.