A History of British Working Class Literature

ISBN-13: 9781107190405 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 496 str.

Goodridge, John

Opis

This History marks the establishment of working-class literature as a valuable and productive area of research in English studies.

Recenzje

'Goodridge and Keegan's book is a timely contribution to the literary, social, and political study of working-class writing, emphasising the continuing significance of class in British society and literature.' Steve Padley, Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism

Spis treści

Introduction John Goodridge and Bridget Keegan; 1. When 'Bread depends on her Character': the problem of laboring-class subjectivity in the foundling hospital archive Jennie Batchelor; 2. 'Stirr' d up by Emulation of the famous Mr Duck': laboring-class poetry in the 1730s Jennifer Batt; 3. The Verse Epistle and laboring-class literary sociability from Duck to Burns William J. Christmas; 4. 'But Genius is the special Gift of God!': the reclamation of 'Natural Genius' in the late eighteenth-century verses of Ann Yearsley and James Woodhouse Steve Van-Hagen; 5. Alexander Wilson: the rise and fall and rise of a laboring-class writer Gerard Carruthers; 6. Neither mute nor inglorious: Ann Yearsley and Elegy Kerri Andrews; 7. 'British Bards': the concept of laboring-class poetry in eighteenth-century Wales Mary-Ann Constantine; 8. 'Behold in these Coromantees/the fate of an agonized world': Edward Rushton's transnational radicalism Franca Dellarosa; 9. Transnational Ulster and laboring-class self-fashioning Jennifer Orr; 10. Working-class poetry and the Royal Literary Fund: two case studies in patronage Scott McEathron; 11. The life of William Cobbett: caricature, hauntology and the impossibility of radical life writing in the romantic period Ian Haywood; 12. John Clare's Agrarian Idyll: a confluence of pastoral and Georgic Gary Harrison; 13. 'And aft thy dear Doric aside I hae flung, to busk oot my sang wi' the prood Southron tongue': the Antiphonal Muse in Janet Hamilton's poetics Kaye Kossick; 14. 'The guilty game of human subjugation': religion as ideology in Thomas Cooper's The Purgatory of Suicides Mike Sanders; 15. At the margins of print: life-narratives of Victorian working-class women Florence S. Boos; 16. The newspaper press and the Victorian working-class poet Kirstie Blair; 17. Tensions, transformations and local identity: the evolving meanings of nineteenth-century Tyneside dialect songs Rod Hermeston; 18. On the road: all manner of tramps in English and Scottish writing from the 1880s to the 1920s H. Gustav Klaus; 19. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth: genre, serial fiction and popular reading patterns Nicola Wilson; 20. 'The young men of the nation': Alexander Baron and urban working-class masculinity Anthony Cartwright; 21. Kathleen Dayus: the girl from Hockley Sharon Ouditt; 22. 'It have a kind of communal feeling with the Working Class and the spades': Sam Selvon, Tony Harrison and 'Colonization in Reverse' Jack Windle; 23. Clannish confines: the folk, the proletariat and the people in modern Scottish literature Corey Gibson; 24. A critical minefield: the haunting of the Welsh working-class novel Lisa Sheppard and Aidan Byrne; 25. Transforming working-class writers and writing: digital editions, projects and analyses Cole Crawford; Afterword Brian Maidment.