Out of the ordinary : how everyday life inspired a nation and how it can again
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Out of the ordinary : how everyday life inspired a nation and how it can again
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary: "This is an age of polarization. It's us vs. them. The battle lines are clear, and compromise is surrender. As Out of the Ordinary reminds us, we have been here before. From the 1920s to the 1950s, in a world transformed by revolution and war, extreme ideologies of left and right fueled utopian hopes and dystopian fears. In response, Marc Stears writes, a group of British writers, artists, photographers, and filmmakers showed a way out. These men and women, including J. B. Priestley, George Orwell, Barbara Jones, Dylan Thomas, Laurie Lee, and Bill Brandt, had no formal connection to one another. But they each worked to forge a politics that resisted the empty idealisms and totalizing abstractions of their time. Instead they were convinced that people going about their daily lives possess all the insight, virtue, and determination required to build a good society. In poems, novels, essays, films, paintings, and photographs, they gave witness to everyday people's ability to overcome the supposedly inso
収録内容
- Introduction: A Britain forgotten
- Getting out of the whale
- A little holding of ground
- The properties of my memory remain
- All nations are odious, but some less odious than others
- The socialists in power
- Brief city
- Acquaintance plus wonder
- Conclusion: The magic of everyday life
