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Nuts and Bolts: Collective Action, the Divestment Movement, and Jane Addams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2024

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Caroline Levine*
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Abstract

This essay describes the author's quest for effective, large-scale political actions to stop the burning of fossil fuels. What are the nuts and bolts of collective organizing at scales large enough to effect substantial change? Frustrated both by widespread public pessimism and by the politics most often articulated in literary studies, Levine finds a working political model in the divestment movement; a methodological model in formalist analysis; and a theory of collective aesthetics and politics in post-Victorian Jane Addams.

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 51 , Special Issue 4: Victorianist Activism: Past, Present, and Future , Winter 2023 , pp. 591 - 604
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