Writing the Revolution: German and English Radical Literature, 1819-1848/49This study investigates German and English revolutionary literary discourse between 1819 and 1848/49. Marked by dramatic socioeconomic transformations, this period witnessed a pronounced transnational shift from the concept of political revolution to one of social revolution. Writing the Revolution engages with literary authors, radical journalists, early proletarian pamphleteers, and political theorists, tracing their demands for social liberation, as well as their struggles with the specter of proletarian revolution. The book argues that these ideological battles translated into competing "poetics of revolution." (Series: Kulturgeschichtliche Perspektiven - Vol. 10) |
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| Title | Writing the Revolution: German and English Radical Literature, 1819-1848/49 Volume 10 of Kulturgeschichtliche Perspektiven |
| Author | Raphael Hörmann |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster, 2011 |
| ISBN | 3643901348, 9783643901347 |
| Length | 392 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Popular Culture |
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