The Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

Gebonden Engels 2009 1e druk 9780754665045
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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.

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ISBN13:9780754665045
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:268
Druk:1
Thema:
1DDU Verenigd Koninkrijk, Groot-Brittannië
3ML 18e eeuw, ca. 1700 tot ca. 1799
3MN 19e eeuw, ca. 1800 tot ca. 1899
5PDD Met betrekking tot lagere sociaaleconomische groepen

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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.

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