{"product_id":"imagining-socialism-mark-a-allison-9780192896490","title":"Imagining Socialism: Aesthetics, Anti-Politics, and Literature in Britain, 1817-1918","description":"\"Socialism\" names a form of collective life that has never been fully realized; consequently, it is best understood as a goal to be imagined. So this study argues, and thereby uncovers an aesthetic impulse that animates some of the most consequential socialist writing, thought, and practice of the long nineteenth century. \u003cem\u003eImagining Socialism\u003c\/em\u003e explores this tradition of radical activism, investigating the diverse ways that British socialists--from Robert Owen to the mid-century Christian Socialists to William Morris--marshalled the resources of the aesthetic in their efforts to surmount \"politics\" and develop non-governmental forms of collective life. Their ambitious attempts at social regeneration led some socialists to explore the liberatory possibilities afforded by cooperative labor, women's emancipation, political violence, and the power of the arts themselves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eImagining Socialism\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that, far from being confined to the \"socialist revival\" of the fin de si鐵le, important socialist experiments with the emancipatory potential of the aesthetic in Britain may be found throughout the period it calls the \"socialist century\"--and may still inspire us today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark A. Allison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192896490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192896490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Mark A. Allison","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44127262638335,"sku":"9780192896490","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_24b9e446-371a-4dc2-bf18-ad2880bced8a.jpg?v=1687452673","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imagining-socialism-mark-a-allison-9780192896490","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}