Modernism and British socialism
By: by Thomas Linehan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230230118
Subjects: HISTORY / Social History; Socialism; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; Modernism (Aesthetics); History
Description: "Thomas Linehan offers a fresh perspective on late Victorian and Edwardian socialism by examining the socialist revival of these years from the standpoint of modernism. In so doing, he explores the modernist mission as extending beyond the concerns of the literary and artistic avant-garde to incorporate political and social movements"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Series PrefaceAcknowledgements Introduction Defining Modernism The Spiritual and Epiphanic Modernism of British Socialism Socialist Utopian Modernism: the Myths of the Kingdom and the Golden Age Experiments in Social Modernism: the Communities of Hope Contesting Abstract Space The Return to Origins: Modernism, Socialism and Childhood Fabian Modernism Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index.