Books by H. Gustav Klaus

The leading historian in this field here offers a number of specific studies which do much to illuminate the politics, literature and culture of alternative visions.Contents: Introduction. “Moral Force” and “Physical Force” in the Poetry of Chartism: John Mitchell and David Wright of Aberdeen; Mrs Rochester and Mr Cooper: Alternative Visions of Class, History and Rebellion in the “Hungry Forties”; Voices of Anger and Hope from the 1840s to the 1940s: Hugh Williams, T.E. Nicholas and Idris Davies; Bart Kennedy: Hater of Slavery, Tramp and Professor of Walking; Rebels on the Stage: Turn-of-the-Century Plays by Wilde, Galsworthy, Jones and Lawrence; The Shipbuilders’ Story; Felled Trees – Fallen Soldiers; Individual, Community and Conflict in Scottish Working-Class Fiction, 1920-1940; Genteel Anarchism: Herbert Read’s Poetry of Two Wars; Foregrounding the Kitchen: Everyday Domestic Life in Painting and Drama (with illustrations); Anti-authoritarianism in James Kelman’s Late-Twentieth-Century Fiction; John Burnside’s Living Nowhere as Industrial Fiction. Index.

Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writing from the Romantic period to the present. It explores the interactive vision of nature and society in the work of writers ranging from William Wordsworth and John Clare to John Burnside.