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British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837

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  • © 2008

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Authors:
  1. Bridget Keegan

    1. Creighton University, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: ‘A Weed in Nature’s Poesy’ — British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730–1837

    • Bridget Keegan
    Pages 1-9

  3. ‘The Fields His Study’: Robert Bloomfield’s Poetics of Sustainability

    • Bridget Keegan
    Pages 10-36

  4. Return to the Garden: James Woodhouse and Polite Cultivations

    • Bridget Keegan
    Pages 37-64

  5. Heavenly Prospects: Views From Clifton and Cliffden

    • Bridget Keegan
    Pages 65-97

  6. Writing Against the Current: Anne Wilson’s Teisa and Labouring-Class River Poetry

    • Bridget Keegan
    Pages 98-121

  7. ‘What Terms of Art Can Nature’s Pow’rs Express?’: William Falconer and Labouring-Class Poetry at Sea

    • Bridget Keegan
    Pages 122-147

  8. ‘And All is Nakedness and Fen’: John Clare’s Wetlands

    • Bridget Keegan
    Pages 148-171

  9. Conclusion: The Politics and Poetics of Wood — Labouring-Class Poetry in the Victorian Era

    • Bridget Keegan
    Pages 172-192

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 193-220
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This study shows how poets worked within and against the available forms of nature writing to challenge their place within physical, political, and cultural landscapes. Looking at the treatment of different ecosystems, it argues that writing about the environment allowed labouring-class poets to explore important social and aesthetic questions.

Reviews

'Bridget Keegan's book is a work of meticulous scholarship and will be welcomed as a substantial contribution to the postmodern reassessment of the English literature canon that is going on in the academic world; but it also has things to reveal to the non-academic reader who holds that the realm of poetry is a classless republic.'

- M.M. Mahood, John Clare Society Journal

'Her [Keegan] survey as a whole appears to be both well-informed and well-balanced. Students and lovers of English poetry will read it with profit and pleasure.' - Thomas Kullmann

Authors and Affiliations

  • Creighton University, USA

    Bridget Keegan

About the author

BRIDGET KEEGAN is Professor of English at Creighton University, USA. She is the editor of volume two of Eighteenth-Century Labouring-Class Poets and (with James C. McKusick) of Literature and Nature. With Simon White and John Goodridge, she co-edited Robert Bloomfield: Lyric, Class and the Romantic Canon. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on labouring-class writers. 

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