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Author Weinroth, Michelle, 1959-

Title Reclaiming William Morris : Englishness, sublimity, and the rhetoric of dissent / Michelle Weinroth
Published Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 302 pages)
Contents Philosophical reflections : towards a theory of propaganda -- Conservative propaganda and the legacy of William Morris -- Propaganda of the Third International and the emerging Marxist Morris -- Martyrdom and the communist intellectual -- The irrationality of rationalist discourse : a phenomenology of communist propaganda -- "England, Our England" : the sublime poetics of communist community -- "The Biting Edge of British Humour" : the sublime patriotism of cold war communists
Summary Discussing the relations between nationalism, rhetoric and revolution, this text shows how the English legacy of William Morris was appropriated in the interests of political forces seeking hegemonic power
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index
Notes English
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Subject Morris, William, 1834-1896 -- Political and social views
Morris, William, 1834-1896 -- Influence
Arnot, Robert Page, 1890-1986. William Morris
SUBJECT Morris, William, 1834-1896 fast
Morris, William (Künstler, 1834-1896) swd
Subject Communism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Socialism -- Great Britain -- 19th century
National characteristics, English.
Dissenters -- Great Britain
Sublime, The.
Socialism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
ART -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Communism
Dissenters
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
National characteristics, English
Political and social views
Socialism
Sublime, The
Communisme.
Propaganda.
Beïnvloeding.
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97182551
ISBN 9780773566224
0773566228
1282854135
9781282854130
9786612854132
6612854138