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  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. List of figures
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Foreword: remembering H. Gustav Klaus
    1. Works cited
    2. Written by H. Gustav Klaus
    3. Edited or co-edited by H. Gustav Klaus
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
    1. Note
    2. Works cited
  10. Part I: The making of the working-class writer
    1. 1. ‘There is an End of the Thresher’s Labours’: Stephen Duck’s enigmatic death
      1. A brief history of accounts of Duck’s death
      2. A suicide counter-narrative
      3. Notes
      4. Works cited
        1. Periodicals
    2. 2. Other realms of labouring-class antislavery: the early verse and medical writing of Thomas Trotter
      1. From peasant to physician: Trotter’s poetic aspirations
      2. Censure and censorship: ‘Ladies Walk’ in a local and literary context
      3. Embedding antislavery: Trotter’s Observations on the Scurvy (1786)
      4. Notes
      5. Works cited
    3. 3. The rise, fall and revival of labouring-class poetry in the commercial market, 1800–1821
      1. The farmer’s boy and the Irish soldier go to market: Robert Bloomfield and Thomas Dermody
      2. Death by numbers: Nathaniel Bloomfield, Henry Kirke White and the perils of promotion
      3. Dead poets resurrected: editorial curation and niche marketing
      4. Works cited
        1. Periodicals
    4. 4. The post-humanist John Clare
      1. Works cited
  11. Part II: Nineteenth-century developments
    1. 5. Mediated melodies: Jone o’ Grinfilt and the challenges of ballad preservation
      1. The (re)mediated melodies of Jone o’ Grinfilt
      2. Between music and media
      3. Reclaiming music at the margins
      4. Notes
      5. Works cited
    2. 6. Friend of the people: the poetry of H.H. Horton (1811–96) of Birmingham
      1. Notes
      2. Works cited
        1. Works by H.H. Horton
        2. Secondary sources
        3. Periodicals
    3. 7. Rewriting trauma: Elizabeth Campbell’s unedited and edited poems
      1. Elizabeth Duncan Campbell (1804–78)
      2. Campbell’s early Poems: the Crimean War
      3. Campbell’s early Poems: transcendence and loss
      4. Songs of My Pilgrimage, 1875
      5. Notes
      6. Works cited
        1. Obituaries
    4. 8. Helen Macfarlane: a radical among middle-class women writers of the mid-nineteenth century
      1. Works cited
    5. 9. The pit mice: animals in the mines and the working-class poet
      1. Notes
      2. Works cited
  12. Part III: Twentieth-century pioneers
    1. 10. Paving the road to socialism: the political leadership and pastoral writing of Katharine Glasier (1867–1950)
      1. A socialist response to sprawling industrialism
      2. Ecosocialist alternatives in Tales from the Derbyshire Hills
      3. Notes
      4. Works cited
    2. 11. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and the question of audience
      1. Note
      2. Works cited
        1. Works by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
        2. Periodicals
        3. Secondary sources
    3. 12. Intersections of class and gender in the fiction of Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Tessa Hadley
      1. Works cited
  13. Part IV: Post-war issues: deindustrialisation, casual work and feminism
    1. 13. A crisis in masculinity? A comparison between English and West German miners’ novels, 1945–70
      1. Note
      2. Works cited
    2. 14. ‘Woman Wanted. Theatre Cleaner (8–12 daily)’: the missing literature of the empty mopped stage
      1. Note
      2. Works cited
      3. Newspapers and Periodicals
    3. 15. Thieves in the night: women in the early days of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
      1. Notes
      2. Works cited
  14. Part V: Contemporary developments: empire, ecology and belonging
    1. 16. The Caribbean radical tradition and diasporic politics in George Lamming’s Water with Berries
      1. Note
      2. Works cited
    2. 17. Gypsy women’s lives: facts, autobiographies and Louise Doughty’s novel Stone Cradle
      1. A brief history of the Gypsies in Britain
      2. Changing lifestyle
      3. The testimony of Gypsy women’s autobiographies
      4. The view of a woman novelist: Louise Doughty’s Stone Cradle
      5. Note
      6. Works cited
        1. Primary sources
        2. Secondary sources
        3. Further reading
    3. 18. Degrowth and Marxist ecology: new directions for criticism after Gustav Klaus
      1. Early critiques of work
      2. Degrowth
        1. Ecological
        2. Feminist
        3. Automation
        4. Postdevelopment
        5. Summary
      3. Kohei Saito’s Marx in the Anthropocene
      4. Saito and degrowth
      5. New directions in criticism
      6. Works cited
  15. Index

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