Class and the Canon: Constructing Labouring-Class Poetry and Poetics, 1780-1900

Blair, K.; Gorji, M.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-11-13

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137030320

DOI: 10.1057/9781137030337

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 216