Literature and Class: From the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution

by Andrew Hadfield

This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants' Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. The book argues throughout that class cannot be seen as a modern phenomenon that occurred after the Industrial revolution but that class divisions and relations have always structured...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526125838
• ISBN13: 9781526125835
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"