Anarchy and Art: Literary, Visual and Political Cultures from 18th to 20th Centuries

The book explores the relationship between Euro-American literature and the history of the anarchist movement and culture from the late-18th to the first half of the 20th century.By examining the connections between a range of canonical authors or semi-canonical authors and the radical political tradition of anarchism, this research argues that some of the most influential figures in Western literature engaged-explicitly or not-with one of the most heterodox ideologies in the history of European political thought: anarchism.The aim of the work is to delineate the analytical ground for the theoretical encounter between anarchy and the history of art and literature, thus offering a different perspective on Western literary modernity.