A History of British Working Class Literature - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107190401 ISBN 13 : 9781107190405

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

John Goodridge has been researching labouring-class poetry, John Clare studies and related fields for the past three decades. He is Vice-President of the John Clare Society and a Fellow of the English Association. He co-founded the Robert Bloomfield Society and the Thomas Chatterton Society, edits the Database of Labouring-Class Poets and is the General Editor of six volumes of labouring-class poetry.

Bridget Keegan has worked on British labouring-class poetry for nearly thirty years and has written and edited numerous publications on the topic. She is Professor of English and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Creighton University, Omaha.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107190401
• ISBN 13: 9781107190405
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Éditeur: Goodridge John, Keegan Bridget
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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