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The Style and Mythology of Socialism

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Arguably no modern ideology has diffused as fast as Socialism. From the mid-nineteenth century to the last quarter of the twentieth socialist ideals played a crucial part not only in the political sphere, but also influenced the way people worked and played, thought and felt, designed and decorated, hoped and yearned. By proposing general observations on the relationship between socialism, imagination, myth and utopia, as well as bringing the late nineteenth century socialist culture - a culture imbued with Biblical narratives, Christian symbols, classic mythology, rituals from freemasonry, Viking romanticism, and utopian speculations - together under the novel term 'socialist idealism', The Style and Mythology of Socialism: Socialist Idealism, 1871-1914 draws attention to the symbolic, artistic and rhetorical ways that socialism originally set the hearts of people on fire.

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ISBN: 9780367348809
Publication date: 5th July 2019
Author: Stefan Arvidsson
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 324 pages
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
Genres: Religion: general
Eclectic and esoteric religions and belief systems
History and Archaeology