{"product_id":"red-britain-the-russian-revolution-in-mid-century-culture-9780198817710","title":"Red Britain: The Russian Revolution in Mid-Century Culture","description":"\u003cem\u003eRed Britain\u003c\/em\u003e sets out a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of mid-century Britain by drawing attention to the extent, diversity, and longevity of the cultural effects of the Russian Revolution. Drawing on new archival research and historical scholarship, this book explores the\u003cbr\u003econceptual, discursive, and formal reverberations of the Bolshevik Revolution in British literature and culture. It provides new insight into canonical writers including Doris Lessing, George Orwell, Dorothy Richardson, H.G Wells, and Raymond Williams, as well bringing to attention a cast of\u003cbr\u003eless-studied writers, intellectuals, journalists, and visitors to the Soviet Union. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eRed Britain\u003c\/em\u003e shows that the cultural resonances of the Russian Revolution are more far-reaching and various than has previously been acknowledged. Each of the five chapters takes as its subject one particular problem or debate, and investigates the ways in which it was politicised as a result of the\u003cbr\u003eRussian Revolution and the subsequent development of the Soviet state. The chapters focus on the idea of the future; numbers and arithmetic; law and justice; debates around agriculture and landowning; and finally orality, literacy, and religion. In all of these spheres, \u003cem\u003eRed Britain\u003c\/em\u003e shows how the\u003cbr\u003emedievalist, romantic, oral, pastoral, anarchic, and ethical emphases of English socialism clashed with, and were sometimes overwritten by, futurist, utilitarian, literate, urban, statist, and economistic ideas associated with the Bolshevik Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Taunton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198817710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Taunton, \u003cem\u003eSenior Lecturer, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMatthew Taunton is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at University of East Anglia. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eFictions of the City: Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave, 2009). He has also published articles and book chapters on modern literature and politics, and on cities. With\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Kohlmann, he co-edited \u003cem\u003eA History of 1930s British Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge UP, 2018), as well as a special issue of \u003cem\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; History\u003c\/em\u003e called \u003cem\u003eLiteratures of Anti-Communism\u003c\/em\u003e (2015). He is deputy editor of \u003cem\u003eCritical Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932112109683,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":76.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_c7e2d353-e902-4645-8dcf-77ca712a4ff4.jpg?v=1647790293","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/red-britain-the-russian-revolution-in-mid-century-culture-9780198817710","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}