Year: 2005
Compiled by: Klaus G., Knight S.
Authors: The collective (see Contents)
Genre: Literary criticism, collection of articles
Publisher: University of Wales Press, Cardiff
ISBN: 0708318983
English language
Format: DjVu
Interactive table of contents: Yes
Number of Pages: 223

The ways in which anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism have made an impact in British 20th-century literature are explored in this collection of critical essays. This radical and thus far under-considered topic is up for review now that traditional paradigms of leftist and radical thought are under reexamination and the Marxist tradition is being seen as an imposition on a situation that was always more various and complex than typical descriptions have admitted. These essays investigate the theory that in the early 20th century there were several currents of anarchist thought, ranging from extreme radicalism to effective conservativism, and that a good deal of the thinking and writing that has been classed as Marxist is in fact more accurately described as anarchist.

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction (H. Gustav Klaus and Stephen Knight)
2. Conrad and Anarchism: Irony, Solidarity and Betrayal (John Rignall)
3. Identifying Anarchy in G.K.Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday (Heather Worthington)
4. Art for Politics' Sake: The Sardonic Principle of James Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon (William K. Malcolm)
5. Anarcho-syndicalism in Welsh Fiction in English (Stephen Knight)
6. Ralph Bates and the Representation of the Spanish Anarchists in Lean Men and The Olive Field (Raimund Schaffner)
7. Ethel Mannin's Fiction and the Influence of Emma Goldmann (Kathleen Bell)
8. Herbert Read and the Anarchist Aesthetic (Paul Gibbard)
9. Aldous Huxley and Alex Comfort: A Comparison (David Goodway)
10. John Cowper Powys and Anarchism (Victor Golightly)
11. Litvinoff's Room: East End Anarchism (Valentine Cunningham)
12. Anti-authoritarianism in the Later Fiction of James Kelman (H. Gustav Klaus)
13. Pimps, Punks and Pub Crooners: Anarchy and Anarchism in Contemporary Welsh Fiction (Katie Gramich)
14. Lifestyle Anarchism and its Discontents: Mark Revenhill, Enda Walsh and the Politics of Contemporary Drama (Christian Schmitt-Kilb)
Index

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