The Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Krishnamurthy, Aruna

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351880343
• Artikelnr.: 47392371

Autorenporträt

Aruna Krishnamurthy is Assistant Professor of English at Fitchburg State College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Aruna Krishnamurthy; 'From threshing corn
he turns to thresh his brains': Stephen Duck as laboring-class intellectual
William J. Christmas; Protest and performance: Ann Yearsley's Poems on Several Occasions
Monica Smith Hart; 'Hoddin' grey an' a' that': Robert Burns's head
class hybridity and the value of the ploughman's mantle
Luke R.J. Maynard; Coffee-house vs. ale-house: notes on the making of the 18th-century working-class intellectual
Aruna Krishnamurthy; Genre in the Chartist periodical
Rob Breton; Shakespeare in the early working-class press
Kathryn Prince; Radical satire and respectability: comic imagination in Hone
Jerrold and Dickens
Sambudha Sen; 'The unaccredited hero': Alton Lock
Thomas Carlyle
and the formation of the working-class intellectual
Richard Salmon; Alexander Somerville's rise from serfdom: working-class self-fashioning through journalism
autobiography and political economy
Julie F. Codell; Politeness and intertextuality in Michael Faraday's artisan essay-circle
Alice Jenkins; Playing at poverty: the music hall and the staging of the working class
Ian Peddie; Index.