British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodridge, John.

Contributor:

Goodridge

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, GB : University of London Press, 2025.

Contents:

Cover

Frontmatter

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Foreword: remembering H. Gustav Klaus / Christian Schmitt-Kilb

Acknowledgements

Introduction / John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen

Part I. The making of the working-class writer

1. 'There is an End of the Thresher's Labours': Stephen Duck's enigmatic death / William J. Christmas

2. Other realms of labouring-class antislavery: the early verse and medical writing of Thomas Trotter / Adam Bridgen

3. The rise, fall and revival of labouring-class poetry in the commercial market, 1800-1821 / Tim Fulford

4. The post-humanist John Clare / Simon J. White

Part II. Nineteenth-century developments

5. Mediated melodies: Jone o' Grinfilt and the challenges of ballad preservation / Rebekah Erdman

6. Friend of the people: the poetry of H.H. Horton (1811-96) of Birmingham / Stephen Roberts

7. Rewriting trauma: Elizabeth Campbell's unedited and edited poems / Florence S. Boos

8. Helen Macfarlane: a radical among middle-class women writers of the mid-nineteenth century / John Rignall

9. The pit mice: animals in the mines and the working-class poet / Kirstie Blair

Part III. Twentieth-century pioneers

10. Paving the road to socialism: the political leadership and pastoral writing of Katharine Glasier (1867-1950) / Heidi Renée Aijala

11. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and the question of audience / Kathleen Bell

12. Intersections of class and gender in the fiction of Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Tessa Hadley / Livi Michael

Part IV. Post-war issues: deindustrialisation, casual work and feminism

13. A crisis in masculinity? A comparison between English and West German miners' novels, 1945-70 / Steve Eszrenyi.

14. 'Woman Wanted. Theatre Cleaner (8-12 daily)': the missing literature of the empty mopped stage / Sarah K. Whitfield

15. Thieves in the night: women in the early days of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies / Monika Seidl

Part V. Contemporary developments: empire, ecology and belonging

16. The Caribbean radical tradition and diasporic politics in George Lamming's Water with Berries / Matti Ron

17. Gypsy women's lives: facts, autobiographies and Louise Doughty's novel Stone Cradle / Ingrid von Rosenberg

18. Degrowth and Marxist ecology: new directions for criticism after Gustav Klaus / Luke Lewin Davies

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-913739-08-2

OCLC:

1530777308