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1.

Labor & Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America Gender and American Figure » Read Now
by Paula Rabinowitz. 224 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America » Read Now
by Laura Browder. 220 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

A reevaluation of American cultural politics in the 1930s
This interdisciplinary study blends textual analysis with social history to chart the intellectual and artistic ferment of Depression-era America. In Rousing the Nation, Laura Browder explores the fiction, drama, and film produced during the...
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A reevaluation of American cultural politics in the 1930s
This interdisciplinary study blends textual analysis with social history to chart the intellectual and artistic ferment of Depression-era America. In Rousing the Nation, Laura Browder explores the fiction, drama, and film produced during the decade by socially conscious intellectuals who struggled to create a uniquely American art. Challenged by a public more exposed to comic strips and tabloids than to serious artistic creativity, these writers and cinematographers used the techniques of modernism and muckraking to fashion works that would be experimental without being insular and would inspire the public to social activism.
Browder first considers authors James T. Farrell, Josephine Herbst, and John Dos Passos, arguing that their work successfully sparked a discussion about what it meant to be American at a time when the country's very future seemed in doubt. She then examines the Living Newspaper productions of the Federal Theatre Project, which brought politically and aesthetically provocative drama to twenty-five million Americans. In a final chapter, she examines social films of the period, focusing on Paramount's 1939 production of One-Third of a Nation.
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Radical Stages: Alternative History in Modern British Drama » Read Now
by D. Keith Peacock. 204 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This volume examines the evolution of British historical drama from John Osborne's 1956 landmark Look Back in Anger to the 1980s. Peacock illustrates how the ruling group within a society establishes a cultural hegemony by which it perpetuates its values and demonstrates how the historical drama of...
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This volume examines the evolution of British historical drama from John Osborne's 1956 landmark Look Back in Anger to the 1980s. Peacock illustrates how the ruling group within a society establishes a cultural hegemony by which it perpetuates its values and demonstrates how the historical drama of the period was employed as a weapon in an assault upon this cultural hegemony. Among dramatists examined are Howard Brenton, Trevor Griffiths, Edward Bond, and David Edgar. The study analyzes how the revolutionary and social movements of the period, including the women's movement, are reflected in its historical drama and speculates on the future of British historical drama in the changing political climate of the 1990s.
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The Drama of Dissent: The Radical Poetics of Nonconformity, 1380-1590 » Read Now
by Ritchie D. Kendall. 286 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library
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Studies in the Literary Backgrounds of English Radicalism: With Special Reference to the French Revolution » Read Now
by M. Ray Adams. 334 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...appeared in periodicals...American Literature , IX, 113...and English Radicalism," Modern...and virile literature of political radicalism of this period in...
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Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers, 1889-1939 » Read Now
by Angela Ingram, Daphine Patai. 320 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...History and criticism. 5. Radicalism--Great Britain--History--19th century. 6. Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History...History. 9. Social problems in literature...
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The Revolutionary Imagination: The Poetry and Politics of John Wheelwright and Sherry Mangan » Read Now
by Alan M. Wald. 292 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...criticism. 4. Radicalism in literature. 5. Socialism...study of literature and radicalism has not been...alterations in forms and...of literary radicalism of the...
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The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s (Chap. 8 "The New York Intellectuals in Fiction") » Read Now
by Alan M. Wald. 442 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...eighteen having specialized in English literature and philosophy. Believing...he majored in history and literature, graduating in June 1924 as a member of...of Cohens...
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Writers Take Sides, Stalinists Take Control: The Second International Congress for the Defense of Culture (Spain 1937), in The Historian » Read Now
by Robert S. Thornberry. 18 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...revolucion (Octavio Paz, 1993)(1) Civil war in Spain became inevitable when an alliance...government of Spains Second Republic--promulgated in April 1931--and thus began...
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Literature and Revolution » Read Now
by Leon Trotsky. 254 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...presentiment could pass through Russian literature at the end of the last century and the...history had to produce the deepest changes in the basis of economics, in land...
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Representing Revolution in Milton and His Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism » Read Now
by David Loewenstein. 413 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the interactions of literature, polemics and religious politics in the English Revolution. Loewenstein highlights the powerful spiritual beliefs and religious ideologies in the polemical struggles of Milton, Marvell and their radical Puritan contemporaries...
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This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the interactions of literature, polemics and religious politics in the English Revolution. Loewenstein highlights the powerful spiritual beliefs and religious ideologies in the polemical struggles of Milton, Marvell and their radical Puritan contemporaries during these revolutionary decades. Loewenstein's portrait of a faction-riven, violent seventeenth-century revolutionary culture is an original and significant contribution to our understanding of these turbulent decades and their aftermath.
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John Keats and the Culture of Dissent » Read Now
by Nicholas Roe. 316 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Keats and the Culture of Dissent sets out to recover the lively and unsettling voices of Keats's poetry, and seeks to trace the complex ways in which his poems responded to and addressed their contemporary world. It offers new research about Keats's early life opening valuable new perspectives on...
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Keats and the Culture of Dissent sets out to recover the lively and unsettling voices of Keats's poetry, and seeks to trace the complex ways in which his poems responded to and addressed their contemporary world. It offers new research about Keats's early life opening valuable new perspectives on his poetry. Two chapters explore the dissenting culture of Enfield School, showing how the school exercised a strong influence on Keats's imaginative life and his political radicalism. Imagination and politics intertwine through succeeding chapters on Keats's friendship with Charles Cowden Clarke; his medical career; the `Cockney' milieu in which Keats's poems were written; and on the immediate controversial impact of his three collections of poetry. The author deftly reconstructs contexts and contemporary resonances for Keats's poems, retrieving the vigorous challenges of Keats's verbal art which outraged his early readers but which was lost to us as Keats entered the canon of English romantic poets.
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Angelina Grimke: Rhetoric, Identity, and the Radical Imagination » Read Now
by Stephen Howard Browne. 204 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Stephen H. Browne is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at The Pennsylvania State University.