Working Verse in Victorian Scotland: Poetry, Press, Community

by Kirstie Blair

This volume reassesses working-class poetry and poetics in Victorian Britain, using Scotland as a focus and with particular attention to the role of the popular press in fostering and disseminating working-class verse cultures. It studies a very wide variety of writers who are unknown to scholarship, and assesses the political, social, and cultural work which their poetry performed.

During the Victorian period, Scotland underwent unprecedented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198843798
• ISBN13: 9780198843795
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"