'Thinking Against the Current' : Literature and Political Resistance

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Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: ‘Oh England, / Sick in head and sick in heart’ (Anon, 1675)
	1 ‘No Respecter of Persons’: The impact of Quaker persecution history on the radicalism of Tom Paine
	2 Blake and Shelley versus Their Society
	3 Hazlitt versus Malthus
	4 ‘Warmint’ and ‘Gentleman’ in Great Expectations: The ambiguous ‘lowness’ of Abel Magwitch
Part Two: Enter the Women
	5 ‘Ourstory’ by Carole Satyamurti
	6 Introduction to ‘Which Dead Should Awaken?’: From the Collective Biography of Women, 1550–1900
	7 A ‘Strong-minded Woman’ – Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827–1890): The ‘mother’ of the 19th century British women’s movement
	8 Introduction to Jeanie, an ‘Army of One’: Mrs. Nassau Senior (1828–1877), the first woman in Whitehall
	9 Introduction to International Woman Suffrage News (Ius Suffragii), 1906–1914
	10 Eleanor Rathbone MP (1872–1946) and Indian Girls: Cultural imperialist or friend to women?
Part Three: Twentieth-Century Women and the Problem of War
	11 England’s Cassandras in World War One
	12 Caroline Playne (1858–1940): Cultural historian and and social psychologist
	13 Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1860–1931): The chance the world missed
	14 Simone Weil (1909–1943): The wise fool
	15 Virginia Woolf and Antigone: Thinking against the current
	16 German Women in the Resistance to Hitler
	17 Germany’s Antigone: Sophie Scholl (1921–1943)
	18 Compiling the First Dictionary of British Humanitarians: Why? What? Who? How?
	19 Vera Brittain (1893–1970): The dogged pacifist
	20 American Visionaries: Helen Keller, and the poets Muriel Rukeyser, Denise Levertov and Sharon Olds
	21 Righteous Violence – War in the Family, War in the World
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