History of British Working Class Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Goodridge, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A History of British Working-Class Literature examines the rich contributions of working-class writers in Great Britain from 1700 to the present. Since the early eighteenth century the phenomenon of working-class writing has been recognised, but almost invariably co-opted in some ultimately distorting manner, whether as examples of 'natural genius'; a Victorian self-improvement ethic; or as an aspect of the heroic workers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century radical culture. The present work contrastingly applies a wide variety of interpretive approaches to this literature. Essays on more familiar topics, such as the 'agrarian idyll' of John Clare, are mixed with entirely new areas in the field like working-class women's 'life-narratives'. This authoritative and comprehensive History explores a wide range of genres such as travel writing, the verse-epistle, the elegy and novels, while covering aspects of Welsh, Scottish, Ulster/Irish culture and transatlantic perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108120708
• Artikelnr.: 49046650

Inhaltsangabe

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.