No news is good news : William Morris's utopian print -- The black and white veil : Shaw, mass print culture, and the antinovel turn -- Living language : print drama, live drama, and the socialist theatrical turn -- Measured revolution : poetry and the late Victorian radical press -- Enlightenment beyond reason : theosophical socialism and radical print culture -- Free love, free print : sex radicalism, censorship, and the biopolitical turn
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. No News Is Good News -- CHAPTER 2. The Black and White Veil -- CHAPTER 3. Living Language -- CHAPTER 4. Measured Revolution -- CHAPTER 5. Enlightenment Beyond Reason -- CHAPTER 6. Free Love, Free Print -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index
This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry. While Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation, socialist, anarchist and other radicals of this later period suspected that a mass public could not exist outside the capitalist system. In response, they purposely reduced the scale of print by appealing to a small, counter-cultural audience. "Slow print," like "slow food" today, actively re
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