Class and the Canon [electronic resource] : Constructing Labouring-Class Poetry and Poetics, 1780-1900 /
Blair, K.editor.
Gorji, M.editor.
Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in relation to contemporaries and poets from earlier periods, this book highlights the complexities of labouring-class poetic identities in the period from Burns to mid-late century Victorian dialect poets.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Was Burns a Labouring-Class Poet?; 3 Constructing the Ulster Labouring-Class Poet: The Case of Samuel Thomson; 4 Sociable or Solitary? John Clare, Robert Bloomfield, Community and Isolation; 5 John Clare and the Triumph of Little Things; 6 'No more than as an atom 'mid the vast profound': Conceptions of Time in the Poetry of William Cowper, William Wordsworth, and Ann Yearsley; 7 The Pen and the Hammer: Thomas Carlyle, Ebenezer Elliott, and the 'active poet'; 8 Samuel Ferguson's Maudlin Jumble
9 Courtly Lays or Democratic Songs? The Politics of Poetic Citation in Chartist Literary Criticism10 Edwin Waugh: The Social and Literary Standing of a Working-Class Icon; 11 William Barnes's Place and Dialects of Connection; Index
Inclludes bibliographical references and index.
Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in relation to contemporaries and poets from earlier periods, this book highlights the complexities of labouring-class poetic identities in the period from Burns to mid-late century Victorian dialect poets.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature, Modern.
Poetry.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
British and Irish Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.