Intemperate Narratives:: Tory Tipplers, Liberal Abstainers, and Victorian British Socialist Fiction
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2008
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Cambridge University Press
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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