Titlebook: Victoria‘s Madmen; Revolution and Alien Clive Bloom Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013

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Tinker Bell on Mars,nfranchised groups to attempt to unite that belief with political and economic arguments derived from utopian socialists. For a time in the nineteenth century there was certainly debate and bridge-building between both spiritualists and socialists, and utopian socialists were also in the spiritualis

resilience

,Chatterton’s Scorcher,o the throne moved as the century progressed, from the reform club ideals of the late eighteenth century to the Jacobinical republican dreams of the French revolutionary period, on to the Spencian plotters and thence to Chartism by the middle of the century and the foreign revolutionary passions of

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The Death Machine of Hartman the Anarchist,throughout his career) complained that the ‘a(chǎn)narchist element … seem determined to drive us to extremity’, whilst Frantz Kitz complained of the affliction of the sort of ‘a(chǎn)naemic respectability’ that attached itself to Fabian activities. Yet some Britons were, it seems, willing to give revolution a

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Russia on the Clyde,, took a pot shot at the German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck was unscathed and pronounced the dread name of the assassin’s mentor — Karl Marx — who had actually died in poverty in 1883. It was true that Marx had known Blind as a young boy, but that was enough for Bismarck to name the real

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Smoked Salmon and Onions,amuel and Henrietta Barnett, Charles Booth, Eleanor Marx, Tom Mann and Ben Tillett, Beatrice Webb and Charles Bradlaugh. Lenin visited Whitechapel in October 1902 and 1903. In the East End were to be found the origins all those jumbled theories of Christian socialism and of sociology, of anarchism,

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Playing Cricket in the Corridors,gulated free-for-all that was capitalism, other radicals were preaching the exact opposite, fearing that individualism itself was under threat. These two pulls came to dominate the early twentieth century and have proved irreconcilable. Victorian Britain was getting too large and too complex to leav

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The Collective Dreams of Bees,ed, equivalent to a change in human nature. Before the 1880s, individualism reigned supreme as the central tenet of political life; after 1885, the whole idea was a busted flush. The change was accounted for by a belief that those in power had lost their nerve. This was not, so the Fabians thought,

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The Way of the Ego,quality of individuals and had effectively destroyed any arguments for the concept of superiority by class or caste. What it substituted was a different type of inequality: that of each individual’s mental capacity. Citizens could only be differentiated through the strength of their individual inner

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