1st Edition
The Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
Edited By Aruna Krishnamurthy
Copyright 2009
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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.
Biography
Aruna Krishnamurthy is Assistant Professor of English at Fitchburg State College, USA.
'... living and working in the early twenty-first century, a period where race and gender attract a great deal of focus, it is good to see a serious and scholarly approach taken to the issues of class and intellectual productivity.' English Studies '... the volume contains many contributions that will be of general interest to scholars working within Victorian studies. In particular, scholars interested in the interchange between middle-class respectability and working-class radicalism will find much of interest in the essays by Salmon, Rob Breton, Sambudha Sen, Alice Jenkins, and Ian Peddie, as well as Krishnamurthy's second contribution. The collection indicates, furthermore, a new phase in the study of working-class literature is underway.' Victorian Studies
