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American Socialist Triptych : The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. du Bois.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Class : Culture SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (401 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472028085
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: American Socialist TriptychDDC classification:
  • 810.9/3581
LOC classification:
  • PS1744
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Toward a Literary History of (Social) Democracy in America -- Part I: Social Democracy in America -- 1: Looking Backward, Working Forward: Fin de Siècle Socialism according to Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- 2: The Multiplicity of American Socialism: Upton Sinclair and the "Party of Agitation," 1901-1914 -- 3: The Feminism of American Socialism: Gilman and Company at Work, in Love, and on Trial -- 4: Within the Veil: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Second Internationale, 1909-1919 -- Part II: Literary Negotiations -- 5: Call and Response: The Politics of Literary Utopianism and Realism -- 6: Utopia and Apocalypse: Social Democratic Fiction and the Great War -- 7: Heaven and Earth: Revelations and Doubt in the Sacco-Vanzetti Decade -- Part III: Political Interventions -- 8: Once More unto the Breach: Social Democratic Advance and Retreat in the Red Decade -- 9: Reading The Jungle at Breakfast: The New Deal and Other Social Democratic Legacies -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Toward a Literary History of (Social) Democracy in America -- Part I: Social Democracy in America -- 1: Looking Backward, Working Forward: Fin de Siècle Socialism according to Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- 2: The Multiplicity of American Socialism: Upton Sinclair and the "Party of Agitation," 1901-1914 -- 3: The Feminism of American Socialism: Gilman and Company at Work, in Love, and on Trial -- 4: Within the Veil: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Second Internationale, 1909-1919 -- Part II: Literary Negotiations -- 5: Call and Response: The Politics of Literary Utopianism and Realism -- 6: Utopia and Apocalypse: Social Democratic Fiction and the Great War -- 7: Heaven and Earth: Revelations and Doubt in the Sacco-Vanzetti Decade -- Part III: Political Interventions -- 8: Once More unto the Breach: Social Democratic Advance and Retreat in the Red Decade -- 9: Reading The Jungle at Breakfast: The New Deal and Other Social Democratic Legacies -- Notes -- Index.

A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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