Class and the canon: constructing labouring-class poetry and poetics, 1780-1900
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781137030320
Date de publication :
13 nov. 2012
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.