This collection of essays contributes to scholarship on the emergence of the working classes, by filtering the formation of working-class identity through the rise of the "working-class intellectual," a unique cultural figure at the crossroads of two disparate worlds. The essays cover a range of familiar and unfamiliar figures from the 1730s to the 1850s, shedding light on key moments of working-class self-expression.
This collection of essays contributes to scholarship on the emergence of the working classes, by filtering the formation of working-class identity through the rise of the "working-class intellectual," a unique cultural figure at the crossroads of two disparate worlds. The essays cover a range of familiar and unfamiliar figures from the 1730s to the 1850s, shedding light on key moments of working-class self-expression.
Aruna Krishnamurthy is Assistant Professor of English at Fitchburg State College, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents: Introduction Aruna Krishnamurthy; 'From threshing corn he turns to thresh his brains': Stephen Duck as laboring-class intellectual William J. Christmas; Protest and performance: Ann Yearsley's Poems on Several Occasions Monica Smith Hart; 'Hoddin' grey an' a' that': Robert Burns's head class hybridity and the value of the ploughman's mantle Luke R.J. Maynard; Coffee-house vs. ale-house: notes on the making of the 18th-century working-class intellectual Aruna Krishnamurthy; Genre in the Chartist periodical Rob Breton; Shakespeare in the early working-class press Kathryn Prince; Radical satire and respectability: comic imagination in Hone Jerrold and Dickens Sambudha Sen; 'The unaccredited hero': Alton Lock Thomas Carlyle and the formation of the working-class intellectual Richard Salmon; Alexander Somerville's rise from serfdom: working-class self-fashioning through journalism autobiography and political economy Julie F. Codell; Politeness and intertextuality in Michael Faraday's artisan essay-circle Alice Jenkins; Playing at poverty: the music hall and the staging of the working class Ian Peddie; Index.
Contents: Introduction Aruna Krishnamurthy; 'From threshing corn he turns to thresh his brains': Stephen Duck as laboring-class intellectual William J. Christmas; Protest and performance: Ann Yearsley's Poems on Several Occasions Monica Smith Hart; 'Hoddin' grey an' a' that': Robert Burns's head class hybridity and the value of the ploughman's mantle Luke R.J. Maynard; Coffee-house vs. ale-house: notes on the making of the 18th-century working-class intellectual Aruna Krishnamurthy; Genre in the Chartist periodical Rob Breton; Shakespeare in the early working-class press Kathryn Prince; Radical satire and respectability: comic imagination in Hone Jerrold and Dickens Sambudha Sen; 'The unaccredited hero': Alton Lock Thomas Carlyle and the formation of the working-class intellectual Richard Salmon; Alexander Somerville's rise from serfdom: working-class self-fashioning through journalism autobiography and political economy Julie F. Codell; Politeness and intertextuality in Michael Faraday's artisan essay-circle Alice Jenkins; Playing at poverty: the music hall and the staging of the working class Ian Peddie; Index.
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