The Socialist novel in Britain
Subtitle: towards the recovery of a tradition
By: edited by H. Gustav Klaus.
Contributors: Klaus, H. Gustav, 1944-
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: English fiction -- History and criticism.; Socialism in literature.; Working class in literature.; Working class writings, English -- History and criticism.; Working class -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Chartist fiction and the development of a class-based literature / Martha Vicinus; value: Between Chartism and the 1880s: J.W. Overton and E. Lynn Linton / J.M. Rignall; value: Margaret Harkness and the socialist novel / John Goode; value: Early harvest: three anti-capitalist novels published in 1914 / Jack Mitchell; value: Silhouettes of revolution: some neglected novels of the early 1920s / H. Gustav Klaus; value: Working-class, proletarian, socialist: problems in some Welsh novels / Raymond Williams; value: The language of the working-class novel of the 1930's / Ramón López Ortega; value: Militancy, anger, and resignation: alternative moods in the working-class novel of the 1950's and early 1960's / Ingrid von Rosenberg; value: Socialist fiction and the education of desire: Mervyn Jones, Raymond Williams, John Berger / Kiernan Ryan.