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"This paradigm shifting collection of essays is to be recommended to anyone interested in the interface between literature and history. The editors are to be congratulated on bringing together such an impressive cast of contributors. There are ground-breaking readings of familiar figures such as Ann Yearsley and John Clare and fascinating analyses of less familar ones such as Samuel Thomson. But what really sets this volume apart is the profound attention given to the complex relations between class and canon. The editors have put these topics back where they belong, right at the heart of critical debate." Gary Day, Principal Lecturer in English, De Montfort University, UK
"By complicating the notion of class, Blair and Gorji's outstanding collection advances the study of labouring-class poets in exciting new directions. Contributors expand our appreciation of the importance of poets such as Burns, Clare, and Barnes and introduce us to figures, such as Samuel Thomson and Samuel Ferguson, whose work deserves deeper consideration. The essays offer innovative contexts for re-envisioning the work of a wide range of writers and challenge the marginalization of laboring-class poetry in literary history." Professor Bridget Keegan, Department of English, Creighton University, USA
"...Class and the Canon offers much analysis beyond the biographical approaches which have so far tended to dominate this critical field." Adam White, The BARS Review
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Book Title: Class and the Canon
Book Subtitle: Constructing Labouring-Class Poetry and Poetics, 1780-1900
Editors: Kirstie Blair, Mina Gorji
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137030337
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-03032-0Published: 13 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44037-5Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-03033-7Published: 13 November 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 216
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature