A History of British Working Class Literature

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John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent University) Bridget Keegan (Creighton University, Omaha)

A History of British Working Class Literature

John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent University), Bridget Keegan (Creighton University, Omaha)

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English

Cambridge University Press
02 May 2017

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: general; Humanities; British & Irish history

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.

Edited by: John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent University), Bridget Keegan (Creighton University, Omaha)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 850g
ISBN: 9781107190405
ISBN 10: 1107190401
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 02 May 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for A History of British Working Class Literature

'A History of British Working Class Literature consists of 25 essays by more than 30 contributors hailing from the US, the UK, and Germany. This reviewer cannot imagine a more comprehensive commentary on this much-neglected topic. ... This reviewer recommends every essay in this splendid collection, because singling out some is to implicitly and unfairly devalue others. ... This collection is a must read for those interested in politics and literature. ... Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' L. A. Brewer, Choice '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