Intemperate Narratives:: Tory Tipplers, Liberal Abstainers, and Victorian British Socialist Fiction

Date

2008

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Cambridge University Press

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Peer reviewed

Yes

Abstract

This article discusses the attitudes to and representations of alcohol consumption in the journalism and literature of four Victorian British socialist periodicals: Robert Blatchford's Clarion, the Social Democratic Federation's Justice, Keir Hardie's Labour Leader and Joseph Burgess's Workman's Times.

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British socialist fiction, alcohol, temperance, Robert Blatchford, Clarion, Henry Mayers Hyndman, Justice, Labour Leader, James Sexton, Workman's Times

Citation

Mutch, D. (2008) Intemperate Narratives:: Tory Tipplers, Liberal Abstainers, and Victorian British Socialist Fiction. Victorian Literature and Culture, 36 (2), pp. 471-487

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Research Institute