Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Agriculture
anti-authoritarian lexicon
Aristocrat
artisan education
Artisans
Black Dwarf
Bourgeois Public Sphere
Britain
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Chartist Intellectuals
Chartist movement
Chartist Press
Children
class consciousness
Comedy
cultural identity
duck
Education
Employment
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Government
Graphic Satire
Grub Street Journal
Horatian Ode
intellectualism
intellectuals
Journalism
Laboring Class Poet
labour history
Labourers
Law
Letter Writing
Literacy
Literature
martha
Mechanics
Melodrama
Mental Exercises
Music Hall
Music Halls
Newspaper
Northern Star
Novel
Periodicals
plebian
Poetry
poets
political-intellectual supremacy
Poor
Poverty
Prices
Print Entertainment
radical literature
Radical Satire
Relationships
Richard III
Schools
Self-help
Shakespeare's Relevance
Shakespeare's Richard III
Shakespeare’s Relevance
Shakespeare’s Richard III
Slavery
social mobility Britain
stephen
Stephen Duck
Thresher's Labour
Thresher’s Labour
uneducated
vicinus
Working Class Autobiography
Working Class Intellectual
Working Class Periodicals
Working Class Poet
Working Class Readers
Working Class Writer
working-class literary culture analysis
writers
Young Man
Youth
Product details
- ISBN 9781138261938
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Britain, the period that stretches from the middle of the eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century marks the emergence of the working classes, alongside and in response to the development of the middle-class public sphere. This collection contributes to that scholarship by exploring the figure of the "working-class intellectual," who both assimilates the anti-authoritarian lexicon of the middle classes to create a new political and cultural identity, and revolutionizes it with the subversive energy of class hostility. Through considering a broad range of writings across key moments of working-class self-expression, the essays reevaluate a host of familiar writers such as Robert Burns, John Thelwall, Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, Ann Yearsley, and even Shakespeare, in terms of their role within a working-class constituency. The collection also breaks fresh ground in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholarship by shedding light on a number of unfamiliar and underrepresented figures, such as Alexander Somerville, Michael Faraday, and the singer Ned Corvan.
Aruna Krishnamurthy is Assistant Professor of English at Fitchburg State College, USA.
