Unmaking Merlin: Anarchist Tendencies in English Literature

by Elliot Murphy

Overview

A unique exploration of how anarchist philosophy and practice has inspired some of the English language's most revered, and reviled, authors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782791713
Publisher:	Hunt, John Publishing
Publication date:	11/28/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	198
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Elliot Murphy was born in Liverpool in 1991, and is a postgraduate Linguistics student at the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL. His work focuses on neurolinguistics and the evolution of language, and he holds a first-class English degree from the University of Nottingham.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Preface viii

1 Occupy Catalonia 1

2 This Side of Paradise 33

3 Atheists, Statists, and the English Literati 46

4 Workers and Writers 62

5 Nothing to Declare? 93

6 Intellectual Nonsense and the Fear of Rationality 106

7 Merlin, Glastonbury, and Shakespearean Anarchism 126

Notes 156

Index 191