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urn:uuid:d1cf4879-5534-4c94-8628-01896fc4558d 03 15 9781913739096 00 EB E101 10 01 01 British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 1 A01 John Goodridge John Goodridge is Emeritus Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University, President of the John Clare Society, and a Fellow of the English Association. He is the general editor of English Labouring Class Poets (2003 and 2006, six volumes), co-edited with Bridget Keegan, A Cambridge History of Working-Class Writing (2018), and edits and principally writes the online ‘Catalogue of Labouring-class Poetry’. 2 B01 Adam Bridgen Adam Bridgen is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Durham University. He has published widely on labouring-class poetry, the social dimensions of writing about slavery, resource extraction, and human-animal relationships during the long eighteenth century. His first monograph, on British labouring-class antislavery writing, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. 01 eng 23 British 12 HBTB 10 HIS054000 23 Literary Studies 23 History ⇒ Social and Cultural History 10 LIT025030 23 women writers 10 LIT025050 23 radical culture 10 1.1.0.0.0.0.0 23 poetry 23 politics 23 socialism 23 literary 23 working-class 23 Stephen Duck 23 John Clare 01 06 03 00 <bold>An essential history of how literature became a battleground for class struggle and political dissent in Britain.</bold>At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection of British working-class and radical writing from the eighteenth century to the present day.Taking the pioneering work of H. Gustav Klaus on British labouring-class, socialist and anarchist writing traditions as its foundation, the volume embraces variety to reflect the richness of working-class and radical cultures across the last three centuries. Cross-cutting topics include the ways in which working-class writers got into print, the obstacles they faced in doing so and in expressing their views, the rise of women writers and their involvement in radical culture, representations of animals and more-than-human perspectives, socialism and environmentalism, feminism, anti-imperialism, and the intersection of working-class and diasporic identities.Questions of genre and form are also addressed, from dialect poetry to the novel, pastoral to melodrama, and life writing to theatre. Showcasing a wide range of innovative approaches, the volume contributes significantly to recovering the literary work and radicalism of several little-studied and forgotten working-class authors, as well as reappraising better-known figures such as John Clare and Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. 04 00 Foreword: Remembering H. Gustav KlausChristian Schmitt-KilbIntroductionJohn Goodridge and Adam BridgenI. The Making of the Working-Class Writer'There is an End of the Thresher's Labours': Stephen Duck's Enigmatic DeathWilliam J. ChristmasOther Realms of Labouring-Class Antislavery: The Early Verse and Medical Writing of Thomas TrotterAdam BridgenThe Rise, Fall and Revival of Labouring-Class Poetry in the Commercial Market, 1800-1821Tim FulfordThe Post-Humanist John ClareSimon J. WhiteII. Nineteenth-Century DevelopmentsMediated Melodies: ‘Jone o’ Grinfilt’ and the Challenges of Ballad PreservationRebekah ErdmanFriend of the People: The Poetry of H. H. Horton (1811-96) of BirminghamStephen RobertsRewriting Trauma: Elizabeth Campbell's Unedited and Edited PoemsFlorence BoosHelen Macfarlane: A Radical among Middle-Class Women Writers of the Mid-Nineteenth CenturyJohn RignallThe Pit Mice: Animals in the Mines and the Working-Class PoetKirstie BlairIII. Twentieth-Century PioneersPaving the Road to Socialism: The Political Leadership and Pastoral Writing of Katharine Glasier (1867-1950)Heidi Renée AijalaEthel Carnie Holdsworth (1886-1962) and the Question of AudienceKathleen BellIntersections of Class and Gender in the Fiction of Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Tessa HadleyLivi MichaelIV. Postwar Issues: Deindustrialisation, Casual Work, FeminismA Crisis in Masculinity? A comparison between English and West German Miners’ Novels, 1945-1970Steve EszrenyiWoman Wanted Theatre Cleaner (8-12 daily): The Missing Literature of the Empty Mopped StageSarah K. WhitfieldThieves in the Night: Women in the early days of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural StudiesMonika SeidlV. Contemporary Developments: Empire, Ecology, and BelongingThe Caribbean Radical Tradition and Diasporic Politics in George Lamming's Water with BerriesMatti RonGypsy's Women's Lives: Facts, Autobiographies and Louise Doughty's Novel Stone CradleIngrid von RosenbergDegrowth and Marxist Ecology: New Directions for Criticism after Gustav KlausLuke Lewin Davies University of London Press 01 University of London Press 04 01 20250925 02 WORLD 06 15 9781913739072 06 15 9781913739065 06 15 9781913739089 06 15 9781913739096 WORLD 09 University of London Press 20 01