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Author Van Wienen, Mark W.

Title American socialist triptych : the literary-political work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W.E.B. Du Bois / Mark W. Van Wienen
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012

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Series Class : culture
Class, culture.
Contents Looking backward, working forward : fin de siècle socialism according to Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The multiplicity of American socialism : Upton Sinclair and the "party of agitation," 1901-1914 -- The feminism of American socialism : Gilman and company at work, in love, and on trial -- Within the veil : W.E.B. Du Bois and the Second Internationale, 1909-1919 -- Call and response : the politics of literary utopianism and realism -- Utopia and apocalypse : social democratic fiction and the Great War -- Heaven and earth : revelations and doubt in the Sacco-Vanzetti decade -- Once more unto the breach : social democratic advance and retreat in the Red decade -- Reading The jungle at breakfast : the new deal and other social democratic legacies
Summary "A meticulously researched, highly informed, carefully argued, and very accessible account of American socialism, socialists, and socialistic thinking, from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s ... challenges the intellectual and political legacy of Werner Sombart's Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?, whose spirit still hovers over animated discussions about the 'failures' of socialism in the United States."--James A. Miller, George Washington University "A valuable rethinking and reframing of the traditions of leftist literary scholarship in the U.S."--Sylvia Cook, University of Missouri, St. Louis American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W.E.B. Du Bois explores the contributions of three writers to the development of American socialism over a fifty--year period and asserts the vitality of socialism in modern American literature and culture. Drawing upon a wide range of texts including archival sources, Mark W. Van Wienen demonstrates the influence of reform-oriented, democratic socialism both in the careers of these writers and in U.S. politics between 1890 and 1940. While offering unprecedented in-depth analysis of modern American socialist literature, this book charts the path by which the supposedly impossible, dangerous ideals of a cooperative commonwealth were realized, in part, by the New Deal. American Socialist Triptych provides in-depth, innovative readings of the featured writers and their engagement with socialist thought and action. Upton Sinclair represents the movement's most visible manifestation, the Socialist Party of America, founded in 1901; Charlotte Perkins Gilman reflects the socialist elements in both feminism and 1890s reform movements, and W.E.B. Du Bois illuminates social democratic aspirations within the NAACP. Van Wienen's book seeks to re-energize studies of Sinclair by treating him as a serious cultural figure whose career peaked not in the early success of The Jungle but in his nearly successful 1934 run for the California governorship. It also demonstrates as never before the centrality of socialism throughout Gilman's and Du Bois's literary and political careers. More broadly, American Socialist Triptych challenges previous scholarship on American radical literature, which has focused almost exclusively on the 1930s and Communist writers. Van Wienen argues that radical democracy was not the phenomenon of a decade or of a single group but a sustained tradition dispersed within the culture, providing a useful genealogical explanation for how socialist ideas were actually implemented through the New Deal. American Socialist Triptych also revises modern American literary history, arguing for the endurance of realist and utopian literary modes at the height of modernist literary experimentation and showing the importance of socialism not only to the three featured writers but also to their peers, including Edward Bellamy, Hamlin Garland, Jack London, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Claude McKay. Further, by demonstrating the importance of social democratic thought to feminist and African American campaigns for equality, the book dialogues with recent theories of radical egalitarianism. Readers interested in American literature, U.S. history, political theory, and race, gender, and class studies will all find in American Socialist Triptych a valuable and provocative resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
Subject Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935 -- Political and social views
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 -- Political and social views
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 fast
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935 fast
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 fast
Du Bois, William E. B. 1868-1963 gnd
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860-1935 gnd
Sinclair, Upton 1878-1968 gnd
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968. gnd (DE-601)133771466
Du Bois, William E. B. 1868-1963. gnd (DE-601)060204060
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935. gnd (DE-601)131669303
Subject Socialism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Socialism and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Socialism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Socialism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
Political and social views
Socialism
Socialism and literature
Literatur
Sozialismus
Sozialismus.
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020707307
ISBN 0472028081
9780472028085
1283375052
9781283375054
9786613375056
6613375055