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Author(s): Owen Holland Date: 2024 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 197882193X   Pages: 240 OCR: Quality: ISBN13:   Uploader: alex21s Upload Date: 9/17/2023 10:54:36 AM       To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description Between March and May 1871, the Parisian Communards fought for a revolutionary alternative to the status quo grounded in a vision of internationalism, radical democracy and economic justice for the working masses that cut across national borders. The eventual defeat and bloody suppression of the Commune resonated far beyond Paris. In Britain, the Commune provoked widespread and fierce condemnation, while its defenders constituted a small, but vocal, minority. The Commune evoked long-standing fears about the continental spectre of revolution, not least because the Communards seizure of power represented an embryonic alternative to the bourgeois social order. This book examines how a heterogeneous group of authors in Britain responded to the Commune. In doing so, it provides the first full-length critical study of the reception and representation of the Commune in Britain during the closing decades of the nineteenth century, showing how discussions of the Commune functioned as a screen to project hope and fear, serving as a warning for some and an example to others. Writers considered in the book include John Ruskin, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eliza Lynn Linton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Margaret Oliphant, George Gissing, Henry James, William Morris, Alfred Austin and H.G. Wells. As the book shows, many, but not all, of these writers responded to the Commune with literary strategies that sought to stabilize bourgeois subjectivity in the wake of the traumatic shock of a revolutionary event. The book extends critical understanding of the Communes cultural afterlives and explores the relationship between literature and revolution. Read more Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin 3201872 Book https://nitroflare.com/view/40520745A05D...   0.00 alex21s Tags: British Commune Commune Literature Paris Paris Reinventions Responses Revolution Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format   Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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