Description
The intention of this collection of essays, first published in 1971, is to explore the political aspects of some nineteenth century English writers. Under the influence of the great revolutionary upheavals of the period almost all its most important writers were involved, explicitly or otherwise, in political ideas. This is an exploratory volume, and will be of absorbing interest to anyone studying the interaction between literature and ideas in the nineteenth century.
Table of Contents
Chapter I Introduction, John Lucas; Chapter II Politics and the Poet's Role, John Lucas; Chapter III 1848 and the Strange Disease of Modern Love, John Goode; Chapter IV The Radicalism of ‘Little Dorrit’, William Myers; Chapter V George Eliot: Politics and Personality, William Myers; Chapter VI George Meredith: ‘Delicate’ and ‘Epical’ Fiction, David Howard; Chapter VII Conservatism and Revolution in the 1880s, John Lucas; Chapter VIII William Morris and the Dream of Revolution, John Goode;
