Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

By Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

This publication explores the literary tradition of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that observed a flourishing of radical political job in addition to the emergence of a mass print undefined. whereas Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had visible unfastened print as an agent of progressive transformation, socialist, anarchist and different radicals of this later interval suspected mass public couldn't exist outdoor the capitalist procedure. In reaction, they purposely lowered the size of print by means of beautiful to a small, counter-cultural viewers. "Slow print," like "slow nutrients" this day, actively resisted business creation and the commercialization of latest domain names of existence.
Drawing on under-studied periodicals and records, this publication uncovers a mostly forgotten literary-political context. It appears to be like on the wide debate in the radical press over the best way to situate radical values inside of an evolving media ecology, debates that engaged probably the most well-known writers of the period (William Morris and George Bernard Shaw), a number of lesser-known figures (theosophical socialist and contraception reformer Annie Besant, homosexual rights pioneer Edward wood worker, and proto-modernist editor Alfred Orage), and numerous nameless others.

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