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urn:uuid:d1cf4879-5534-4c94-8628-01896fc4558d 03 01 01 urn:uuid:d1cf4879-5534-4c94-8628-01896fc4558d 15 9781913739089 06 10.63674/jimx5453 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode 01 01 British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 1 B01 21 0000-0002-1765-7215 John Goodridge 2 B01 21 0000-0001-9594-7835 Adam Bridgen First edition. 01 eng 12 HBTB 10 HIS054000 B2 Literary Studies 93 NHTB 93 DSB B2 History ⇒ Social and Cultural History 10 LIT025030 93 1DDU 10 LIT025050 10 1.1.0.0.0.0.0 93 3ML 93 3MN 93 3MP 93 3MRB 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 20 00 Open Access University of London Press 01 University of London Press London, GB 04 01 20250925 2025 06 15 9781913739072 06 15 9781913739065 06 15 9781913739089 06 15 9781913739096 09 University of London Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.uolpress.co.uk/10.63674/jimx5453.pdf 99 01 09 University of London Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://uolpress.co.uk/book/british-working-class-and-radical-writing-since-1700/ 99 01