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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
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  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
    2. 2. Other realms of labouring-class antislavery: the early verse and medical writing of Thomas Trotter
    3. 3. The rise, fall and revival of labouring-class poetry in the commercial market, 1800–1821
    4. 4. The post-humanist John Clare
  11. Part II: Nineteenth-century developments
    1. 5. Mediated melodies: Jone o’ Grinfilt and the challenges of ballad preservation
    2. 6. Friend of the people: the poetry of H.H. Horton (1811–96) of Birmingham
    3. 7. Rewriting trauma: Elizabeth Campbell’s unedited and edited poems
    4. 8. Helen Macfarlane: a radical among middle-class women writers of the mid-nineteenth century
    5. 9. The pit mice: animals in the mines and the working-class poet
  12. Part III: Twentieth-century pioneers
    1. 10. Paving the road to socialism: the political leadership and pastoral writing of Katharine Glasier (1867–1950)
    2. 11. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and the question of audience
    3. 12. Intersections of class and gender in the fiction of Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Tessa Hadley
  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
    2. 14. ‘Woman Wanted. Theatre Cleaner (8–12 daily)’: the missing literature of the empty mopped stage
    3. 15. Thieves in the night: women in the early days of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
  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
    2. 17. Gypsy women’s lives: facts, autobiographies and Louise Doughty’s novel Stone Cradle
    3. 18. Degrowth and Marxist ecology: new directions for criticism after Gustav Klaus
  15. Index

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