Voices of Anger and Hope : Studies in the Literature of Labour and Socialism

The leading historian in this field here offers a number of specific studies which do much to illuminate the politics, literature and culture of alternative visions. Contents: Introduction. ?Moral Force? and ?Physical Force? in the Poetry of Chartism: John Mitchell and David Wright of Aberdeen; Mrs Rochester and Mr Cooper: Alternative Visions of Class, History and Rebellion in the ?Hungry Forties?; Voices of Anger and Hope from the 1840s to the 1940s: Hugh Williams, T.E. Nicholas and Idris Davies; Bart Kennedy: Hater of Slavery, Tramp and Professor of Walking; Rebels on the Stage: Turn-of-the-Century Plays by Wilde, Galsworthy, Jones and Lawrence; The Shipbuilders? Story; Felled Trees ? Fallen Soldiers; Individual, Community and Conflict in Scottish Working-Class Fiction, 1920-1940; Genteel Anarchism: Herbert Read?s Poetry of Two Wars; Foregrounding the Kitchen: Everyday Domestic Life in Painting and Drama (with illustrations); Anti-authoritarianism in James Kelman?s Late-Twentieth-Century Fiction; John Burnside?s Living Nowhere as Industrial Fiction. Index.