The Radical Novel and the Classless Society
Title | The Radical Novel and the Classless Society PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Birdwell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | American fiction |
ISBN | 9781498570411 |
The Radical Novel and the Classless Society analyzes radical U.S. literature from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries through the lens of socialist thought, recognition theory, and intersectionality theory.
The Radical Novel and the Classless Society
Title | The Radical Novel and the Classless Society PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Z. Birdwell |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2018-10-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1498570429 |
The Radical Novel and the Classless Society analyzes utopian and proletarian novels as a single socialist tradition in U.S. literature. Utopian novels by such writers as Edward Bellamy, William Dean Howells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Sutton E. Griggs and proletarian novels by such writers as Robert Cantwell, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Meridel Le Sueur, Claude McKay, and Ralph Ellison can help us conceive of a unity of utopian and Marxist socialisms. We can combine the imagination of the future classless society with present-day socialist strategy. Utopian and proletarian novels help us to imagine—and realize—the classless society as achieving the utopian goal of recognizing race and gender and the Marxist goal of overcoming social class.
The Radical Middle Class
Title | The Radical Middle Class PDF eBook |
Author | Robert D. Johnston |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2013-10-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1400849527 |
America has a long tradition of middle-class radicalism, albeit one that intellectual orthodoxy has tended to obscure. The Radical Middle Class seeks to uncover the democratic, populist, and even anticapitalist legacy of the middle class. By examining in particular the independent small business sector or petite bourgeoisie, using Progressive Era Portland, Oregon, as a case study, Robert Johnston shows that class still matters in America. But it matters only if the politics and culture of the leading player in affairs of class, the middle class, is dramatically reconceived. This book is a powerful combination of intellectual, business, labor, medical, and, above all, political history. Its author also humanizes the middle class by describing the lives of four small business owners: Harry Lane, Will Daly, William U'Ren, and Lora Little. Lane was Portland's reform mayor before becoming one of only six senators to vote against U.S. entry into World War I. Daly was Oregon's most prominent labor leader and a onetime Socialist. U'Ren was the national architect of the direct democracy movement. Little was a leading antivaccinationist. The Radical Middle Class further explores the Portland Ku Klux Klan and concludes with a national overview of the American middle class from the Progressive Era to the present. With its engaging narrative, conceptual richness, and daring argumentation, it will be welcomed by all who understand that reexamining the middle class can yield not only better scholarship but firmer grounds for democratic hope.
The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954
Title | The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954 PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Bates Rideout |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780231080774 |
A classic analysis of the American leftist writers of the 1900s, their work, and the political, social, economic, and cultural environment in which they existed--originally published in 1956 (Harvard U. Press) and reprinted with a new preface (8 pp.) by the author. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Radical Novel in the United States 1900–1954
Title | The Radical Novel in the United States 1900–1954 PDF eBook |
Author | Walter B. Rideout |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | 9780231896870 |
Examines a body of fiction, the radical novel in the United States during the first half of the 20th century, in categories such as class war, realism and revolution, literature and politics.
Radical Empathy
Title | Radical Empathy PDF eBook |
Author | Terri Givens |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2022-02-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1447357256 |
Renowned political scientist Terri Givens calls for ‘radical empathy’ in bridging racial divides to understand the origins of our biases, including internalized oppression. Deftly weaving together her own experiences with the political, she offers practical steps to call out racism and bring about radical social change.
Histories of a Radical Book
Title | Histories of a Radical Book PDF eBook |
Author | Antoinette Burton |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2020-11-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1789204720 |
For better or worse, E.P. Thompson’s monumental book The Making of the English Working Class has played an essential role in shaping the intellectual lives of generations of readers since its original publication in 1963. This collected volume explores the complex impact of Thompson’s book, both as an intellectual project and material object, relating it to the social and cultural history of the book form itself—an enduring artifact of English history.