| The Style and Mythology of Socialism: Socialist Idealism, 1871-1914 Contributor(s): Arvidsson, Stefan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138738352 ISBN-13: 9781138738355 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Historiography - History | Modern - 19th Century - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 335 |
| LCCN: 2017019708 |
| Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History |
| Physical Information: 338 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: Arguably no modern ideology has diffused as fast as Socialism. From the mid-nineteenth century to the last quarter of the twentieth socialist ideals played a crucial part not only in the political sphere, but also influenced the way people worked and played, thought and felt, designed and decorated, hoped and yearned. By proposing general observations on the relationship between socialism, imagination, myth and utopia, as well as bringing the late nineteenth century socialist culture - a culture imbued with Biblical narratives, Christian symbols, classic mythology, rituals from freemasonry, Viking romanticism, and utopian speculations - together under the novel term 'socialist idealism', The Style and Mythology of Socialism: Socialist Idealism, 1871-1914 draws attention to the symbolic, artistic and rhetorical ways that socialism originally set the hearts of people on fire. |