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This e-book explores the literary tradition of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that observed a flourishing of radical political task in addition to the emergence of a mass print undefined. whereas Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had noticeable unfastened print as an agent of innovative transformation, socialist, anarchist and different radicals of this later interval suspected mass public couldn't exist outdoors the capitalist approach. In reaction, they purposely diminished the size of print through attractive to a small, counter-cultural viewers. "Slow print," like "slow foodstuff" this day, actively resisted business construction and the commercialization of latest domain names of life.

Drawing on under-studied periodicals and information, this ebook uncovers a mostly forgotten literary-political context. It seems on the wide debate in the radical press over how one can situate radical values inside an evolving media ecology, debates that engaged essentially the most recognized writers of the period (William Morris and George Bernard Shaw), a bunch of lesser-known figures (theosophical socialist and contraception reformer Annie Besant, homosexual rights pioneer Edward chippie, and proto-modernist editor Alfred Orage), and numerous nameless others.

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