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'Socialism' names a form of collective life that has never been fully realized; consequently, it is best understood as a goal to be imagined. This study locates an aesthetic impulse that animates some of the most consequential socialist writing, thought, and practice of the long nineteenth century. This volume explores this tradition of radical activism, investigating the diverse ways that British socialists - from Robert Owen to the mid-century Christian Socialists to William Morris - marshalled the resources of the aesthetic in their efforts to surmount 'politics' and develop non-governmental forms of collective life.

This issue of The Review of Politics is dedicated to the memory of Wilson Carey McWilliams, a long-time member of our Advisory Board and enthusiastic supporter of the study of politics through literature. He was one of the founding members of the organized section on "Politics and Literature" established by the American Political Science Association in 1993. His essay on "Divine Right: Mark Twain's Joan of Arc" is posthumously published here for the first time with the permission of his literary executor, Nancy McWilliams.