The Socialist Novel in Britain: Towards the Recovery of a Tradition

action Alan Sillitoe alien Arthur Beatrice Webb become Berger bourgeois bourgeois novel Brassier Britain British Captain Lobe century Chapter characters Chartist fiction Chartist writers Christian Communist consciousness conventions critical culture Cwmardy Dermod E. P. Thompson economic English Ernest Jones experience fight Gibbon Gillespie Harry Hartley hero historical human Ibid ideology individual industrial industrial novels intellectual interest Jack Mitchell John Joshua Davidson Labour movement language Lewis Jones literary living London Lynn Linton MacGill means melodrama Men Like Gods middle-class miners moral move narrative novelists organisation Overton period perspective picture plot political popular fiction possible problem proletarian prose published radical Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Raymond Williams readers realistic reality revolution revolutionary Saul of Mitre scene Scots Quair seems sense social socialist fiction socialist novel society story strike struggle tradition Tressell Tressell's voice Welsh Wheeler worker-writers workers working-class literature working-class novels