{"product_id":"a-history-of-british-working-class-literature-hardback-9781107190405","title":"A History of British Working Class Literature (Hardback) 9781107190405","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA History of British Working Class Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis History marks the establishment of working-class literature as a valuable and productive area of research in English studies.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Goodridge (Edited by), Bridget Keegan (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107190405, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 April 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e496 pages, 14 b\/w illus.  1 table\u003cbr\u003e23.8 x 16.1 x 3.4 cm, 0.85 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction John Goodridge and Bridget Keegan\u003cbr\u003e 1. When 'Bread depends on her Character': the problem of laboring-class subjectivity in the foundling hospital archive Jennie Batchelor\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'Stirr' d up by Emulation of the famous Mr Duck': laboring-class poetry in the 1730s Jennifer Batt\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Verse Epistle and laboring-class literary sociability from Duck to Burns William J. Christmas\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e 5. Alexander Wilson: the rise and fall and rise of a laboring-class writer Gerard Carruthers\u003cbr\u003e 6. Neither mute nor inglorious: Ann Yearsley and Elegy Kerri Andrews\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'British Bards': the concept of laboring-class poetry in eighteenth-century Wales Mary-Ann Constantine\u003cbr\u003e 8. 'Behold in these Coromantees\/the fate of an agonized world': Edward Rushton's transnational radicalism Franca Dellarosa\u003cbr\u003e 9. Transnational Ulster and laboring-class self-fashioning Jennifer Orr\u003cbr\u003e 10. Working-class poetry and the Royal Literary Fund: two case studies in patronage Scott McEathron\u003cbr\u003e 11. The life of William Cobbett: caricature, hauntology and the impossibility of radical life writing in the romantic period Ian Haywood\u003cbr\u003e 12. John Clare's Agrarian Idyll: a confluence of pastoral and Georgic Gary Harrison\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e 14. 'The guilty game of human subjugation': religion as ideology in Thomas Cooper's The Purgatory of Suicides Mike Sanders\u003cbr\u003e 15. At the margins of print: life-narratives of Victorian working-class women Florence S. Boos\u003cbr\u003e 16. The newspaper press and the Victorian working-class poet Kirstie Blair\u003cbr\u003e 17. Tensions, transformations and local identity: the evolving meanings of nineteenth-century Tyneside dialect songs Rod Hermeston\u003cbr\u003e 18. On the road: all manner of tramps in English and Scottish writing from the 1880s to the 1920s H. Gustav Klaus\u003cbr\u003e 19. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth: genre, serial fiction and popular reading patterns Nicola Wilson\u003cbr\u003e 20. 'The young men of the nation': Alexander Baron and urban working-class masculinity Anthony Cartwright\u003cbr\u003e 21. Kathleen Dayus: the girl from Hockley Sharon Ouditt\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e 23. Clannish confines: the folk, the proletariat and the people in modern Scottish literature Corey Gibson\u003cbr\u003e 24. A critical minefield: the haunting of the Welsh working-class novel Lisa Sheppard and Aidan Byrne\u003cbr\u003e 25. Transforming working-class writers and writing: digital editions, projects and analyses Cole Crawford\u003cbr\u003e Afterword Brian Maidment.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: British \u0026amp; Irish history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on British \u0026amp; Irish history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22British%20\u0026amp;%20Irish%20history%20%5BHBJD1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD1\u003c\/a\u003e], Humanities [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Humanities\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Humanities%20%5BH%5D%22\"\u003eH\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature \u0026amp; literary studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature \u0026amp; literary studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature%20\u0026amp;%20literary%20studies%20%5BD%5D%22\"\u003eD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909225341208,"sku":"9781107190405","price":101.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107190405i_77b34bc6-28f6-469b-90d9-f09cca93bff9.jpg?v=1691362672","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-history-of-british-working-class-literature-hardback-9781107190405","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}