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

by Kirstie Blair and Mina Gorji

Book Overview

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; K.Blair Was Burns a Labouring-Class Poet?; N.Leask Constructing the Ulster Labouring-Class Poet: The Case of Samuel Thomson; J.Orr Sociable or Solitary? John Clare, Robert Bloomfield, Community and Isolation; J.Goodridge John Clare and the Triumph of Little Things; M.Gorji 'No more than as an atom 'mid the vast profound: Conceptions of Time in the Poetry of William Cowper, William Wordsworth, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134944037X
• ISBN13: 9781349440375
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"