Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880-1914

by Ruth Livesey

This book brings to life the growth of the socialist movement among men and women artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Britain. For these campaigners, socialism was inseparable from a desire for a new beauty of life; beauty that also, for many, required them rejecting the sexual conventions of the Victorian era.
From the early 1880s and well into the twentieth century, the efforts of these writers and activists existed in critical tension...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197263984
• ISBN13: 9780197263983
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: British Academy
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"