Writing the revolution

This study investigates German and English revolutionary discourse between 1819 and 1848/49. Marked by dramatic socioeconomic transformations, this period witnessed a pronounced transnational shift from the concept of political to one of social revolution. Writing the Revolution engages with literary authors, radical journalists, early proletarian pamphleteers and political theorists, tracing their demands for social liberation as well as their struggles with the spectre of proletarian revolution. It argues that these ideological battles translated into competing „poetics of revolution“.