Victoria's madmen : revolution and alienation / Clive Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Clive.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spiritualists.

Theosophists.

Counterculture.

Anarchists.

Environmentalists.

Revolutionaries.

Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

Great Britain.

History.

Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

ix, 309 pages : portrait ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

"[The author] mixes extraordinary, marginal voices with famous - and infamous - figures, from messiahs like James Jezreel and Octavia 'Daughter of God'; writers such as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle and Edward Bulwer-Lytton; revolutionaries and radicals like Karl Marx, Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw and Oswald Mosley; madmen like Richard Dadd and Jack the Ripper; worshippers of Pan such as Arthur Machen, Kenneth Grahame and J.M. Barrie; orientalists and guerrilla fighters like T.E. Lawrence and occultists like Aleister Crowley, to the Latvian anarchists who killed three policemen in the East End of London. This is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice: the non-conformists of the age."--Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Manypeeplia Upsidownia 1

2 Radical Lunacy 13

3 The Shock of Vril 29

4 Massacre at Trafalgar 48

5 Sherlock Holmes and the Fairies 56

6 Knocking on Heaven's Door 68

7 Tinker Bell on Mars 86

8 Chatterton's Scorcher 103

9 The Death Machine of Hartman the Anarchist 120

10 Russia on the Clyde 136

11 Smoked Salmon and Onions 148

12 Imagined Worlds Made Real 160

13 Playing Cricket in the Corridors 171

14 The Collective Dreams of Bees 181

15 The Way of the Ego 194

16 Vegetarian Revolutionaries 219

17 On the Frontier 233

18 The Lifting of the Fog 246

19 The Crusade 257

20 The Sound of Distant Drums 278.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-294) and index.

ISBN:

9780230313828

0230313825

OCLC:

855372467