Writing Revolution: Representation, Rhetoric, and Revolutionary Politics (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

Writing Revolution gathers ten essays on several modern authors who supported and worked for the revolutions they studied, lived through, and hoped for. Written by a distinguished scholar who shares their vision, the collection charts a lifetime’s engagement with revolutionary politics. Front Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction References Chapter 1 Political Style/Political Stylistics References Chapter 2 Marxist Medievalists: A Tradition References Chapter 3 Red Rosa: Bread and Roses References Chapter 4 Politics of the Signified in Bertolt Brecht’s The Measures Taken References Chapter 5 Women, Culture, Revolution: Boris Lavrenov’s “The Forty-first” References Chapter 6 Anti-saints: A Revolutionary’s Legendary References Chapter 7 St. Genevieve in the Revolution: Sylvain Maréchal’s Counter-History References Chapter 8 The Woman Priest: Obsession, Cross-Dressing, and Canada in an Eighteenth-Century French Novella References Chapter 9 An Atheist Reads the Bible in Revolutionary France References Chapter 10 Bible, Jews, Revolution References Index Back Cover Revolutionary and writer: how do they fit together in one person's work? Using literary texts from French, German, Russian and American pro-revolutionary writers, Sheila Delany examines the synergy of politics and rhetoric, art and social commitment. The writers she considers gave voice to the hopes of their time. Some led the events in person as well as through their writing; others worked to build a movement. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg, Mao, Sylvain Maréchal, Boris Lavrenov, Bertolt Brecht and others are here: consummate rhetoricians all, not necessarily on the same page politically but for the revolutions of their day.