Explores how late Victorian, Edwardian, and modernist literary texts responded and adapted to institutional change that characterized the emergence of the welfare state, and links the development of the institutional forms of the state to the aesthetic forms of literary writing.
Explores how late Victorian, Edwardian, and modernist literary texts responded and adapted to institutional change that characterized the emergence of the welfare state, and links the development of the institutional forms of the state to the aesthetic forms of literary writing.
Benjamin Kohlmann teaches English literature at the University of Regensburg. His first monograph, Committed Styles: Modernism, Politics, and Left-Wing Literature in the 1930s, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. With Matthew Taunton he is co-editor of A History of 1930s British Literature (CUP, 2019), and his articles have been published in PMLA, ELH, Modern Fiction Studies, Novel, and other journals.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: Thinking the State (Again) * 1: Literature as Speculative Thought: Britain's Long Hegelian Moment, c.1900 * 2: "The Hope of Pessimism": George Gissing, Mary Ward, and the Idea of an Institution * 3: "True Ownership": Edward Carpenter and the Nationalization of Land * 4: "Kinetic" Reform: H. G. Wells and Redistributive Taxation * 5: Welfare State Romance: E. M. Forster and Unemployment Insurance * Coda: Reformist Legacies
* Introduction: Thinking the State (Again) * 1: Literature as Speculative Thought: Britain's Long Hegelian Moment, c.1900 * 2: "The Hope of Pessimism": George Gissing, Mary Ward, and the Idea of an Institution * 3: "True Ownership": Edward Carpenter and the Nationalization of Land * 4: "Kinetic" Reform: H. G. Wells and Redistributive Taxation * 5: Welfare State Romance: E. M. Forster and Unemployment Insurance * Coda: Reformist Legacies
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