Red Britain
The Russian Revolution in Mid-Century Culture
(Sprache: Englisch)
Red Britain is a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of twentieth-century Britain, which demonstrates the central importance of the Russian Revolution to mid-century literature and culture.
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Red Britain is a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of twentieth-century Britain, which demonstrates the central importance of the Russian Revolution to mid-century literature and culture.
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Red Britain sets out a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of mid-century Britain by drawing attention to the extent, diversity, and longevity of the cultural effects of the Russian Revolution. Drawing on new archival research and historical scholarship, this book explores the conceptual, discursive, and formal reverberations of the Bolshevik Revolution in British literature and culture. It provides new insight into canonical writers including Doris Lessing, George Orwell, Dorothy Richardson, H.G Wells, and Raymond Williams, as well bringing to attention a cast of less-studied writers, intellectuals, journalists, and visitors to the Soviet Union. Red Britain shows that the cultural resonances of the Russian Revolution are more far-reaching and various than has previously been acknowledged. Each of the five chapters takes as its subject one particular problem or debate, and investigates the ways in which it was politicised as a result of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent development of the Soviet state. The chapters focus on the idea of the future; numbers and arithmetic; law and justice; debates around agriculture and landowning; and finally orality, literacy, and religion. In all of these spheres, Red Britain shows how the medievalist, romantic, oral, pastoral, anarchic, and ethical emphases of English socialism clashed with, and were sometimes overwritten by, futurist, utilitarian, literate, urban, statist, and economistic ideas associated with the Bolshevik Revolution.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Red Britain “
- Introduction
- 1: The Radiant Future
- 2: Two and Two Make Five
- 3: Crime and Punishment
- 4: Homestead versus Kolschoz
- 5: The Compensations of Illiteracy
- Conclusion
Autoren-Porträt von Matthew Taunton
Matthew Taunton is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at University of East Anglia. He is the author of Fictions of the City: Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris (Palgrave, 2009). He has also published articles and book chapters on modern literature and politics, and on cities. With Benjamin Kohlmann, he co-edited A History of 1930s British Literature (Cambridge UP, 2018), as well as a special issue of Literature & History called Literatures of Anti-Communism (2015). He is deputy editor of Critical Quarterly.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Matthew Taunton
- 2019, 314 Seiten, Maße: 13,5 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198817711
- ISBN-13: 9780198817710
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Taunton boldly expands the realms of both historical periodization and interpretation in this examination of the impact of the Bolshevik Revolution on British literature. Dissatisfied with traditional views, Taunton advances into the long 1930s rather than remaining within the bookends of that decade; he pushes the origins back to the Russian Revolution itself and explores even earlier aspects of Russian culture that directly and indirectly impacted the thinkers and writers of Russia and Britain into the 1950s and beyond... Taunton mines Russian and British writers, cultures, and traditions in great depth, looking at a plethora of subjects, their origins, outgrowths, and apparent impacts in diverse fields, including language itself. Red Britain is ambitious, challenging, and rewarding... Highly Recommended J. A. Young, CHOICE
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