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Political Science Communism & Socialism

Reclaiming William Morris

Englishness, Sublimity, and the Rhetoric of Dissent

by (author) Michelle Weinroth

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Sep 1996
Category
Communism & Socialism, Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Great Britain
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773514393
    Publish Date
    Sep 1996
    List Price
    $125.00

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Moving through theoretical, historical, and exegetical analyses of propagandist texts, Reclaiming William Morris brings out the aesthetic underpinnings of nationalist ideology. Combining the philosophical substance of Karl Marx, Georg Lukács, Antonio Gramsci, and Ernst Bloch with Kantian aesthetics, Weinroth constructs a conceptual apparatus that explains the impassioned yet decidedly marginal rhetoric of early twentieth-century English communism.

About the author

Michelle Weinroth teaches in the Department of English Literature at the University of Ottawa. Paul Leduc Browne is professor of political science at the Université du Québec en Outaouais.

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Editorial Reviews

"An interesting contribution to cultural studies. Weinroth's close readings of various propaganda are particularly effective. She demonstrates most convincingly that dissenting propaganda cannot easily disentangle itself from the fetishistic ideologies of the bourgeois society it seeks to contest." Evelyn Cobley, Department of English, University of Victoria.

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