Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow
Subtitle: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward (Liverpool English Texts and Studies)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: January 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781846310256
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description: From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. This work seeks to recover that indigenous anarchist tradition. It argues that a recovered anarchist tradition could be a touchstone for contemporary political radicals.