Rise of Socialist Fiction 1880-1914

H. Gustav Klaus is Professor of the Literature of the British Isles, Universitat Rostock, Germany. He has held visiting posts as visiting Professor, University of Queensland; Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh and visiting Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His several publications include: The Rise of socialist fiction, 1880-1914 (1987), Factory Girl (1998) and (as co-editor) British Industrial Fiction (2000), James Kelman (2004), To hell with culture: anarchism and twentieth-century British literature (2005).

Contents: New, and original, Editor's Introduction; Kiernan Ryan, 'Citizens of centuries to come: the ruling-class rebel in socialist fiction'; Brunhild de la Motte, 'Radicalism-feminism-socialism: the case of the women novelists'; Jack Mitchell, 'Tendencies in narrative fiction in the London-based socialist press of the 1880s and 1890s'; H. Gustav Klaus, 'The Strike novel in the 1890s'; J.M. Rignall, 'Struggles of the past: brushing history against the grain'; Graham Holderness, 'Anarchism and fiction'; Ingrid von Rosenberg, 'French naturalism and the English socialist novel: Margaret Harkness and William Edwards Tirebuck'; Paul Salveson, 'Allen Clarke and the Lancashire school of working-class novelists'; Michael Wilding, 'Henry Lawson's radical vision'; Ronald Paul, 'Tressell in international perspective'; Edmund and Ruth Frow, 'Ethel Carnie: writer, feminist and socialist'; chronological table; index.