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

by Mina Gorji (Author), Mina Gorji (Author), Kirstie Blair (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $60.54

  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.