Class and the canon : constructing labouring-class poetry and poetics, 1780-1900 / edited by Kirstie Blair, Mina Gorji.

This essay collection focuses on a continuous tradition of labouring-class poetics, from burns in the eighteenth century to the mid-late century Victorian dialect poets who saw themselves, and were seen as, his direct heirs. It speaks to recent scholarly interest in and recovery of labouring-class w...

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