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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

Index

Readers will find references to specific titles by looking under the author’s name.

Page numbers followed by ‘n’ refer to notes and those in italics refer to illustrative figures.

The following elements have been ignored in filing: ‘von’ in names; articles in titles.

Names that begin ‘Mc’ have been filed as if spelt ‘mac’.

  • Abbey Theatre, 228, 230
  • Aberdeen, Lord (George Hamilton-Gordon, fourth Earl), 117, 118
  • abolitionism 32–3, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41. See also anti-slavery
  • Abolition of the Slave Trade Act (1807), 32
  • Adams, Jane, 113
  • Adorno, Theodor, 283
  • Aguiar, Luis, 224
  • Aldous, Lucette, 226
  • Alexandra Theatre Birmingham, 227
  • Angloromani (cant) language, 266
  • ‘Angry Young Men’, 213
  • animals
  • animal welfare movement, 65–6, 154
  • characteristics attributed to humans, 7, 66, 145, 149, 179, 259–60
  • communication systems and intelligence, 75–6
  • in Hinduism, 66
  • in John Clare’s poems, 5, 67, 68–9, 70, 73–5, 76
  • in mines 7–8, 147–8, 155–6. See also mice (in mines); midges (in mines)
  • as part of the working class, 145–6
  • post-humanist thought, 66, 67
  • stigmergy (insect colony collaboration), 72, 73
  • subordinate status, 65, 66
  • and Victorian liberalism, 145
  • anthropocentrism
  • and the animal welfare movement, rise of, 65–6
  • feature of humanism, 65
  • and Humboldt’s view of nature, 66–7, 73, 75
  • and Jacques Derrida, 71, 73, 75, 77
  • in John Clare’s poetry
  • Northborough sonnets, 5, 67, 69, 70–1, 72–6, 77
  • The Shepherd’s Calendar, 67–9, 70, 72
  • anti-colonialism
  • George Lamming, 252–3, 255
  • Water with Berries, 253, 256, 262
  • anti-slavery
  • abolitionism, 32–3, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41
  • early forms of resistance (clergy, Quakers and repentant slave captains), 32
  • John Angell James, 98
  • Liverpool’s labouring-class critiques, 37–8
  • Mount Pleasant (Roscoe), 38–9
  • Observations on the Scurvy (Trotter), 5, 42–3
  • Thomas Trotter’s views, 5, 34–5, 40, 41–3
  • in ‘Verses Written in the Ladies Walk at Liverpool, in January 1783’ (Trotter), 31–2, 33, 37, 39, 40, 42, 43
  • witness accounts, 32, 40–1
  • Arau, Sergio A Day Without a Mexican, 224
  • Assington, Joel (drowning victim), 21
  • Atkinson, James, 74
  • Attwood, Thomas, 99, 103, 106
  • audience, question of (in the work of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth), 175, 177–86
  • autobiographies
  • Gypsy women, 268–74
  • Julie Walters, 230
  • automation, 161–2, 287–9, 292
  • Babcicky, Philipp, 289, 293
  • Babones, Salvatore, 289, 293
  • Badger, Revd W.C., 110n9
  • Bakewell, Thomas, 37
  • Bakhtin, Mikhail, 194, 195
  • ballads 6, 84. See also Jone o’ Grinfilt ballad cycle
  • Bamford, Samuel, 85–6, 146
  • Bard, Wilkie, 226
  • Baring, Maurice, ‘The Clown’, 177
  • Barker, Pat, Blow Your House Down, 199
  • ‘Barney’ (theatre cleaner, Abbey Theatre), 230
  • Barrell, John, 71
  • Barstow, Stan, Ask Me Tomorrow, 205, 212, 213–14, 217
  • Bartlett, Christopher, 206
  • Bashley’s Women’s Institute, 226
  • Bastini, Aaron, 287–8, 290, 293
  • Batten, Robert (drowning victim), 23
  • Batt, Jennifer, 2, 16, 19, 20
  • Baudrillard, Jean, 282, 285, 286, 290, 293
  • Bauman, Zygmunt, 212
  • Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 37
  • Bedford Theatre, 227
  • Bellestri, Tani E., 163, 168
  • Bell, Robert, 84, 86
  • Benanav, Aaron, 288, 293, 294
  • Benezet, Anthony, Short Account of […] the Slave-Trade, 41
  • Bennett, Georgina, 103, 110n7
  • Berger, John, Ways of Seeing, 241
  • Berghahn, Volker R., 209
  • Beynon, John, 206, 212, 215, 217
  • Bhabha, Homi K., 236, 245
  • Biehler, Dawn Day, 154
  • Birmingham. See also Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS)
  • Alexandra Theatre, 227
  • Birmingham: A Poem in Two Parts (Horton), 6, 97, 98, 100, 105–7
  • The Children of the Street: A Tale of Birmingham Life (Horton), 97, 98, 108
  • Church of the Saviour, 100, 108
  • civic contribution to literature, 97
  • labour exchange, establishment of, 99
  • manufacturing industry, 104–5, 107, 108
  • prison conditions, 108
  • publishers, 101, 103
  • Robert Owen’s lectures, 6, 99
  • social reform, 99, 106–7
  • temperance movement, 101–2
  • Black, Bob, 283
  • Black British fiction 253–4. See also Caribbean literature; Lamming, George
  • Black British identity, 253
  • Black, David, 133, 134, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141
  • Black liberation movement, 251–2, 253
  • Blackshaw, Tony, 216
  • Blane, Sir Gilbert, 43n2
  • Blatchford, Robert, 179
  • Bloomfield, Nathaniel, Elegy on War, 58
  • Bloomfield, Robert, 4, 5, 50–1, 53
  • Collected Works, 51
  • The Farmer’s Boy, 50–1
  • ‘Mary’s Evening Sigh’, prefacing statement, 53
  • Bob Marley and the Wailers, ‘Small Axe’262n1
  • Boggs, James (drowning victim), 21
  • Boghossian, Peter, 244
  • Bogues, Anthony, 255
  • Bold, Alan, 192
  • Bolter, Jay David, 85
  • booksellers, 50–52, 60, 101, 108
  • Booth, Maria (mother of H.H. Horton), 98
  • Box, Kathleen, 183
  • Boyes, Georgina, 90
  • Bradburd, Nancy, 239
  • Brenner, Robert, 288
  • Breuker, Georg, Jörgen der Bergmann, 205, 207–8, 208–9, 211
  • Bridgen, Adam, 282, 295
  • British Empire 11, 37, 39–40, 41, 292. See also postcolonialism, Water with Berries (Lamming)
  • Brooks, Joanna, 84
  • Brooks (slave ship), 33, 34, 40, 42, 43
  • Brown, J. Dillon, 253, 258
  • Brown, Sarah (drowning victim), 21–2
  • Brunsdon, Charlotte, 236, 241, 246n6, 246n13
  • ‘A Thief in the Night’, 238, 243–4
  • Brunt, Rosalind, 240, 245n5
  • Burgess, Anthony, 228
  • Burnett, Carol, 225–6
  • Burns, Robert, ‘To a Mouse’, 7, 146, 150, 151
  • Burton, Deirdre, 193
  • Butterworth, James, 86
  • Byron, George Gordon, Baron, 55, 60
  • English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 59
  • Cadbury, John, 101
  • CAM. See Caribbean Artists’ Movement (CAM)
  • Campbell, Alexander, 113
  • Carmina Gaelica, 113
  • Campbell, Beatrix, 211
  • Campbell, Elizabeth, 7, 113–14, 124, 127–8
  • memoir (‘The Life of My Childhood’), 114, 116–17, 126
  • poems
  • Burns Centenary: An Ode and Other Poems, 117
  • ‘Poems 1’ (1862), 114, 117, 122, 129n5
  • ‘The Absent Soldier’, 118, 129n5
  • ‘The Attack on the Great Redan, and the Fall of the Malakhoff’, 118–19
  • ‘Bill Arden’, 118
  • ‘Francis the Slave’, 122
  • ‘The Mother’s Lament’, 118, 119–20, 129n5
  • ‘The Summer Night’, 121–2, 126
  • ‘The Windmill of Sebastopol’, 118, 119
  • ‘Poems 2’ (1863), 114, 122, 129n5
  • ‘The Comet’, 120
  • ‘A Dream’, 120
  • ‘The Farewell’, 129n5
  • ‘Long, Long Ago’, 125
  • ‘The Snow-Drop’, 129n5
  • ‘Poems 3’ (1865), 114, 122–3, 129n5
  • ‘The Bereaved Mother’, 123, 129n5
  • ‘The Criminal’s Death Knell’, 123
  • ‘I Stood by the Wooden Rail’, 129n5
  • ‘Malta’s Isle’, 120, 129n7
  • ‘Ossian’s Grave’, 123, 124
  • ‘Prince Charlie’, 125
  • ‘A Prison Cell’, 123
  • ‘A Visit to Burns’ Monument’, 122
  • ‘The White Russian Tower’, 120
  • ‘Poems 4’ (1867), 114
  • ‘The Amber Cloud’, 120
  • ‘The Crimean War’, 120–1
  • ‘Edinburgh’, 129n8
  • ‘The Evening Star’, 129n7
  • ‘The Lily of the Valley’, 129n8
  • ‘The Robin Redbreast’, 129n8
  • ‘The Sea’, 129n8
  • Songs of My Pilgrimage, 7, 114, 123–8, 124, 129n8
  • ‘Address to the Morning Star’, 126
  • ‘Anna Bell – A Ballad’, 127
  • ‘The Battle of Alma’, 126, 127
  • ‘The Bygone Days’, 126
  • ‘The Cot by the Moor – A Visit to the Home of My Childhood’, 126
  • ‘Death and Sin’, 127
  • ‘The Death of Willie, My Second Son’, 127
  • ‘Early Love’, 126
  • ‘Edinburgh’, 129n8
  • ‘The Fairy King’s Wedding’, 126
  • ‘Fatherless Mary’, 126
  • ‘First Love’, 126
  • ‘The Graves of My Sons’, 127
  • ‘The Lily of the Valley’, 129n8
  • ‘Long, Long Ago’, 125
  • ‘The Man in Satin Shoon – A Ballad’, 126
  • ‘Mary Lee – A Ballad’, 127
  • ‘A Motherless Babe’, 126
  • ‘My Infant Day and My Hair Grown Gray’, 127
  • ‘My Tramp to See the Queen’, 126
  • ‘Noran River’, 126
  • ‘Ossian’s Grave’, 124–5
  • ‘The Pear Tree’, 127
  • ‘Prince Charlie’, 125–6
  • ‘Robin Redbreast’, 129n8
  • ‘The Royal Wedding’, 126
  • ‘The Sea’, 126, 129n8
  • Campbell, William (husband to Elizabeth Campbell), 116, 129n3
  • Campbell, Willie (son to Elizabeth Campbell), 117, 118, 127
  • cant (Angloromani language), 266
  • capital
  • social and cultural capital 1, 11, 34, 43n2, 149, 222
  • capitalism. See also productivism
  • book industry, 49
  • causing poverty and degradation, 162, 164
  • environmental harm caused by economic growth, 163, 290–1, 292, 281–2, 294
  • Gypsy rejection of, 271
  • and nineteenth-century environmentalism, 162, 163, 167–8, 172
  • private accumulation of wealth, Robert Owen’s condemnation, 6, 99
  • Social Democratic Federation (SDF) opposition to, 166–7
  • and working-class masculinity (in miners’ novels of England and West Germany), 207, 208–9, 210–11, 216
  • Caribbean Artists’ Movement (CAM), 253
  • Caribbean literature 10, 251–2, 253. See also Lamming, George
  • Carnie, Ethel. See Holdsworth, Ethel Carnie
  • Caroline, Queen, 2, 15
  • cataleptic knowledge, 195
  • Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS), 9–10, 245
  • history and aims, 237–8
  • internal dynamics, 238
  • Stuart Hall’s recollections of the ‘dawn raid’, 10, 235–6, 243–4
  • visibility of women’s work and issues (documented through the annual reports), 238–40, 241–3
  • Chalmers, Alexander, 18
  • Chapman, John, 137
  • charlady trope, 225–6
  • Chartist movement, 132
  • Chatterton, Thomas, 38, 55, 61
  • Chauve-Souris Company choir, 230
  • Children’s Employment Commission reports (1842), 147–8
  • child workers, 147, 148, 164
  • Chomsky, Noam, 75–6
  • Christianity. See also Church of England; non-conformist preachers
  • and Communism, 132, 134
  • and democracy, 132, 134, 139, 141
  • divine nature common to all, 138
  • and George Eliot’s secularism, 138–9, 139–40
  • Helen Macfarlane’s marriage to Revd John Wilkinson, 137
  • Robert Owen, 99
  • Christian Socialism, 141
  • Church of England
  • affluence of and attitudes towards the poor, 99–100, 106, 133
  • clergy in Scenes of Clerical Life (Eliot), 141
  • glebe lands, 27n7
  • H.H. Horton’s ordination, 108, 109
  • marriage of Helen Macfarlane to Revd John Wilkinson, 137
  • and Stephen Duck, 15, 23, 24, 25
  • cinema cleaners, 224, 227–8
  • Clare, Donald, 40
  • Clare, John, 4, 51, 61, 69–70
  • poems
  • Northborough sonnets, 5, 67, 69–75, 76, 77
  • Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, 67, 69
  • The Shepherd’s Calendar, 67–9, 70, 72
  • The Village Minstrel, 61, 67, 69
  • Clarion, 179
  • classics, the, 98, 108, 117, 147, 165–66, 269
  • class
  • class-conflict, 162, 164, 166–7, 176, 182, 208–9
  • classist ideology, 2, 4, 16, 17–18, 24–5, 25–6
  • contempt/prejudice, 26, 57–58, 60, 133, 171, 180, 182, 185–6. See also promotion, of class contempt
  • as the dominant identifier of the working-class writer, 8, 175
  • double-voiced quality (of labouring-class poets), 3, 35
  • in former colonies (‘national middle class’), 10, 255–6, 257, 261, 262
  • and gender (clever girls), 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 197, 198, 199
  • industrialist/manager-worker relations (in British and West German miners’ novels), 208, 209, 211–12
  • and language, 190, 194
  • literary establishment, 113, 123, 126, 128, 176
  • ownership, socialist solution, 165
  • solidarity and racial difference, 39, 256, 262
  • ‘working-class’ and ‘labouring class’ definition, 1–2
  • working-class readers and reading, 146, 177–86
  • classist ideology, 2, 4, 16, 17–18, 24–5, 25–6
  • cleaners. See also theatre cleaners
  • charwoman trope, 225
  • cinema cleaners, 224, 227–8
  • in film and TV, 224–6
  • performance art, 223–4
  • clever boys, 190
  • clever girls
  • in ‘Bad Dreams’ (Hadley), 196–7
  • protagonists in A Scots Quair (Gibbon) and Clever Girl (Hadley)
  • education, 8, 189, 190, 191–2, 200
  • father-daughter relationship, 192–3
  • female emancipation, 199–200
  • fugitive self, 198–9
  • marriage, 193
  • multiple identities, 192, 198
  • narrative mode, 190, 194–5, 197, 200
  • sexuality, 8, 190, 193, 198
  • split subjectivism, 193–4
  • climate change, 11, 285, 287
  • coal miners. See also miners’ novels
  • descriptions of animals in mines, 147–8
  • importance in post-Second World War Britain and West Germany, 206–7
  • poetry of sensibility, 7–8, 146–7, 149–54, 155–6
  • Coffey, John, 41
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 98
  • Collier, Mary, The Woman’s Labour, 2, 11n1, 221
  • ‘Colliers and Collieries’ (1842), 147
  • Collins, Sewell, The Scrub Lady, 226
  • Comic Cuts (periodical), 178, 179
  • communication systems (animal and human), 75
  • communism
  • anti-communism (post-war West Germany), 207, 209, 210, 216
  • and Christianity, 132, 134
  • luxury communism, 288
  • in A Miner’s Sons (Doherty), 210, 211
  • in The True History of Joshua Davidson, Christian and Communist (Linton), 132, 134
  • Connell, Kieran, 238, 245n2
  • Conway, Katharine. See Glasier, Katharine Bruce
  • The Co-operative News (periodical), 181
  • Cooper, Thomas, 146
  • Cosme, Inês, 283
  • Costello, Louisa Stuart, ‘The Lay of the Stork’, 117
  • Coulter, Kendra, 154–5
  • Coupe, Joseph, 86
  • Cowie, James, ‘Schoolgirl’ (from A Portrait Group), 189
  • Craik, Dinah Maria, 117
  • Crimean War poems, 117–18
  • Elizabeth Campbell, 118–21, 126, 128
  • crime scene cleaning, 224
  • critics
  • of labouring-class writing, 2, 8, 43, 58–59, 175, 182, 268
  • responses to, 3, 43, 69
  • Cross, John, 137
  • Crowley, Matthew, 206, 213
  • Curti, Lidia, 239, 245n2
  • Davies, Luke Lewin, The Tramp in British Literature, 1850–1950, 295
  • Davies, Margaret Llewelyn, 268
  • Davies, Tony, 65
  • Davis, Jim, 223
  • Davis, Tracy C., 223
  • Dawson, George, 100, 108
  • DC Thomson, 183–4
  • decolonisation, 10, 253, 254, 255
  • degrowth theory
  • the degrowth turn in recent literature, 282, 283–90
  • new directions and discourses of work critique, 294–6
  • precursors to, 282–3
  • and Prometheanism, 282, 293, 294, 295
  • Dellarosa, Franca, 32, 37, 38, 39, 40
  • Demaria, Federico, 284
  • democracy, and Christianity, 132, 134, 139, 141
  • Democratic Review (periodical), Helen Macfarlane’s writings in, 131, 132, 133, 136, 138
  • Dereli, Cynthia, 129n4
  • Dermody, Thomas, 5, 52–3
  • ‘On my own Character’, 56
  • poems, Poems Moral and Descriptive, 52
  • Derrida, Jacques, 71, 73, 75, 77, 244
  • diasporic politics (in Water with Berries (Lamming)), 10, 256–7, 261, 262
  • Dickens, Charles, 141, 179
  • The Old Curiosity Shop, 269
  • différance (Derrida), 75, 77
  • Dixon, James Henry, 86
  • Dodd, Ken, 226
  • Doherty, Len, 217n1
  • A Miner’s Sons, 205, 207, 208–9, 210–13
  • domestic labour
  • as a CCCS study topic, 242
  • ‘double shift’, 2, 178
  • in feminist degrowth theory, 285, 286, 287
  • Gypsy women, 273
  • women’s roles in miners’ novels (Britain and West Germany), 208, 213, 216
  • Doughty, Louise, 266, 268, 276
  • Apple Tree Yard, 276
  • Fires in the Dark, 274, 276
  • Stone Cradle, 10, 268, 274–6
  • drag performances, 225
  • Duck, Stephen, 15–16
  • death of
  • accounts of, a brief history, 2, 16–19
  • a suicide counter-narrative, 19–26
  • works
  • ‘Avaro and Amanda’, 2–3
  • Caesar’s Camp: or St. George’s Hill, 24
  • ‘The Thresher’s Labour’, 2, 11n1, 15
  • Duff, David, 70
  • Dumas, Alexandre, 179
  • Duncan, James, 116
  • Dunn, Nell, Poor Cow, 199
  • Dyer, Richard, 240, 246n9
  • Eaton, Daniel Isaac, 66
  • ecological degrowth theory, 284–5
  • ecosocialism
  • and eighteenth-century sensibilities, 295
  • and nineteenth-century environmental movements (William Morris), 163, 167–8, 172
  • and productivity growth, 290, 294
  • ecological degrowth theory, 284–5
  • environmental criticism, 282, 295
  • Marxist ecology, 11, 281, 286, 290–3
  • postdevelopment degrowth theory, 289
  • Tales from the Derbyshire Hills (Glasier), 8, 162–3, 168, 169–72
  • editors
  • exclusion of Thomas Trotter’s early poetry, 36
  • mediation of women poets, 7, 113, 123–7, 128
  • promotion of labouring-class poets, 49, 50–1, 52, 57–8, 59, 60
  • Stephen Duck’s death, popularising accounts of, 18
  • education
  • challenges of non-classical, 147. See also classics
  • Gypsies, 267–8
  • lack of access to (amongst working-class writers), 1, 116, 147, 180, 222
  • national system of, 99
  • of women, 165–6, 189, 190, 191–2, 199, 200, 236
  • opportunities presented by, 165–6, 190
  • Edwards, D.H., 113, 114
  • Edwards, Griffith, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36–7, 40, 41, 42, 43
  • Edwards, Revd John Wilkinson, 137
  • Eliot, George (Marian Evans). See also Evans, Marian (George Eliot)
  • Adam Bede, 135, 141–2
  • Felix Holt, the Radical, 141
  • ‘Madame de Sablé: Woman in France’, 136–7
  • Middlemarch, 140
  • The Mill on the Floss, 135, 140, 141
  • Scenes of Clerical Life, 141
  • Silas Marner, 180
  • Ellmann, Richard, 196
  • empire 11, 37, 39–40, 41, 292. See also postcolonialism, Water with Berries (Lamming)
  • Engels, Friedrich, 283, 290, 293
  • English Republic (periodical), 132
  • environment. See anthropocentrism; ecosocialism; nature
  • Escobar, Arturo, 289, 293
  • Estermann, Alfred, 210
  • Esteva, Gustavo, 289, 293
  • Eurocentrism (and Global North), 289, 292, 294
  • European Magazine, 33, 40
  • Evans, Marian (George Eliot), 131–2, 134–5, 136, 137–8, 139–40, 141
  • The Essence of Christianity (translation of), 136
  • The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined (translation of), 136
  • novels of. See Eliot, George (Marian Evans)
  • Everyman Theatre, 230
  • Fabian Society, 166
  • factory workers
  • in Irrlicht und Feuer (von der Grün), 215, 216
  • as readers, 177–9, 182, 184
  • as slaves, 177
  • strikes, 166
  • working conditions, 108, 164, 172
  • Fanon, Frantz
  • Black Skin White Masks, 257
  • The Wretched of the Earth, 255
  • Farrar, Max, 253
  • Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, Fear Eats the Soul, 224
  • Faubert, Michelle, 34, 37, 41
  • Federici, Silvia, 286, 287, 290, 293, 294
  • feminism. See also women
  • Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
  • Stuart Hall’s recollections of the ‘dawn raid’, 10, 235–6, 243–4
  • women’s contribution and issues at the CCCS (documented through the annual reports), 238–40, 241–3
  • degrowth theory, 283, 285–7
  • and Gypsy women’s autobiographies, 274
  • Mitchell, Juliet, ‘Women: The Longest Revolution’, 240–1
  • and socialist writing, 167, 241
  • women’s education, 165–6
  • Women Take Issue: Aspects of Women’s Subordination, 235, 237, 241, 242
  • Feuerbach, Ludwig, 140
  • The Essence of Christianity, 136, 138
  • Feuerstein, Anna, 145
  • films, cleaners represented in, 224
  • Finnegan, Ruth, 91–2
  • Fitzpatrick, Nick, 283
  • Fitzpatrick, Tony, 282
  • folk songs, 84, 90–1
  • Fonseca, Isabel, 265
  • Forbes, Winslow, 228
  • Foucault, Michel, 236, 244, 293
  • ‘Four Loom Weaver’, 89
  • Fox, Pamela, 182
  • Frayne, David, 284–5, 293
  • Frears, Stephen, Dirty Pretty Things, 224
  • Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique, 240
  • The Friend of the People (periodical), 136
  • Fudge, Erica, 156
  • Gaelic waulking songs, 90
  • Gagnier, Regenia, 269
  • Garland, Judy, 225
  • Geiger-Hof, Anni, Jan Ellerbusch, 207
  • gender. See also feminism; masculinity; women
  • autobiographical genre, 268–9
  • charwoman trope, 225
  • discrimination and Katharine Conway (later Glasier), 166
  • theatre cleaners, 223, 227
  • Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 180
  • Gibbon, Lewis Grassic, 8
  • A Scots Quair, 189, 190, 191–2, 193–5, 196, 197, 198–9, 200
  • Gilfillan, George, 114, 123
  • Glasier, John Bruce, 167
  • Glasier, Katharine Bruce, 8, 165–7
  • political pamphlets, 167
  • The Road to Socialism, 161, 162, 164, 165
  • Socialism for Children, 164, 165
  • short stories, Tales from the Derbyshire Hills, 162–3, 167, 168, 169–72
  • Glass, Elizabeth, 239
  • Global North (and Western Eurocentrism), 289, 292, 294
  • Global South, 262, 289, 290, 293, 294, 295
  • Gluchowski, Bruno, Der Durchbruch, 208
  • Goethe, J.W. von, 67
  • Goodridge, John, 67
  • Gorz, André, 284, 286, 287, 289, 290, 293
  • Greenwood, Walter, Love on the Dole, 184
  • Greer, Stephen, 223–4
  • Gregory, Augusta, Lady, 228, 230
  • von der Grün, Max, 207
  • Irrlicht und Feuer, 205, 207, 214–16
  • Gruppe 61, 207, 214
  • Gruppe, Otto Friedrich, 140
  • Grusin, Richard, 85
  • Gusdorf, George, 268
  • Gypsies
  • Census (2021), 267, 277n2
  • education, 267–8, 272
  • history in Britain, 265–7
  • material conditions, 266, 267, 270–1
  • novelists 268. See also Doughty, Louise
  • terminology, 276–7n1
  • women’s autobiographies, 10, 268–74
  • Habermas, Jürgen, 284
  • Hadley, Tessa, 8
  • Bad Dreams, 189
  • ‘An Abduction’, 195–6
  • ‘Bad Dreams’, 196–7, 198
  • Clever Girl, 189, 190, 191, 192–3, 194, 195, 197–8, 199–200
  • Hall, David, 206–7
  • Hall, Stuart, 237, 246n14
  • ‘benign project’, 236, 240
  • on the CCCS’s internal dynamics, 238
  • Fourth (CCCS) Report (1968), 239
  • Homi Bhabha’s memories of, 245
  • as invited CCCS speaker, 239
  • recollections of the ‘dawn raid’ on the CCCS, 10, 235–6, 243–4
  • Tenth (CCCS) Report (Dec 1978), 242
  • Hamilton, Janet, 123
  • Hannam, June, 167
  • Haraway, Donna J., 67, 76
  • Hardwicke, Robert, 108
  • Harker, Dave, 84
  • Harland, John, 83, 84, 85, 86–7, 88
  • Harney, George Julian, 137
  • Harrison, Mark, 33, 37
  • Hawkins, Susanna, 113
  • Hearn, Mary Ann (drowning victim), 21
  • Heathcote, Ralph, 18
  • Hegel, G.W.F., 136, 140
  • Heine, Heinrich, 136
  • ‘The New Pantheism’, 136
  • Hemmens, Alastair, 282, 283, 295
  • Hessey, James Augustus, 67–8, 69
  • Hester, Helen, 286–7, 293, 294
  • Hickel, Jason, 284
  • Higson, John, 85, 86
  • Hill, Frank, 225
  • Hill, Thomas, 50, 52, 55, 60
  • Himmelweit, Hilde, 239
  • Hinduism, 66
  • Hobson, Dorothy, 241
  • Hoggart, Richard, 237, 239, 241, 252
  • Hoggins, Thomas (pit boy), 148, 153
  • Holdsworth, Ethel Carnie, 8, 176, 177
  • journalism
  • ‘Factory Intelligence’, 177–8
  • ‘How Colour is Introduced’, 179
  • ‘Our Right to Play’, 178
  • ‘The Factory and Content’, 177
  • novels and short stories
  • All On Her Own, 181, 182, 183, 184–5
  • Eagles’ Crag, 183
  • General Belinda, 180–1
  • Helen of Four Gates, 180, 182
  • The Iron Horses, 182
  • The Quest of the Golden Garter, 182
  • The Taming of Nan, 180, 181
  • ‘The Blind Prince’ (in The Lamp Girl), 176, 177
  • This Slavery, 177, 180
  • poems
  • ‘The Bookworm’ (Rhymes from the Factory), 179
  • ‘His Books’ (Voices of Womanhood), 180
  • ‘Love and Poverty’ (Collected Poems), 184
  • ‘A Marching Tune’ (Collected Poems), 176–7
  • ‘Possession’ (Collected Poems), 176
  • Holdsworth, Nadine, 224
  • Hollingworth, Brian, 84, 87
  • Holloway, William, ‘A Reflection on the Death of the Poet Dermody’, 53, 54
  • Holy Brook, Reading, 16, 21–2, 23, 25
  • Horkheimer, Max, 283
  • Horton, Harry Howells, 6
  • biography
  • awarded doctorate at University of Rostock, 109
  • birth and background, 98
  • Church of England, criticisms of, 99–100, 106
  • Church of England, ordination into, 108, 109
  • economic and social status, 98–9, 101, 106–7
  • education, 98
  • as a poet, 97, 98, 100, 101, 108
  • and social reform, 6, 99, 104–5, 106–7, 108, 109
  • temperance, 101–3
  • poems
  • Birmingham: A Poem in Two Parts, 6, 97, 98, 100, 105–7
  • The Children of the Street: A Tale of Birmingham Life, 97, 98, 108
  • The Pleasures of Temperance, 97, 98, 101, 102–3
  • Sutton Park and Other Poems, 97, 98, 103–4
  • ‘To My Infant Child’, 99
  • ‘To the Rev. Hugh Hutton’, 100
  • Horton, Joseph (father of H.H. Horton), 98
  • Ho, Tai-Chun, 117
  • Houghton-Walker, Sarah, 70
  • Household Words (periodical), 132
  • housework. See domestic labour
  • Hribal, Jason, 145–6
  • Hubbard, Revd Thomas, 23
  • Huber, Matthew, 285, 293
  • Hughes, Michael, 251
  • Hugo, Victor, 181
  • Les Misérables, 180
  • human beings. See anthropocentrism
  • humanism 5, 65, 66, 68, 73. See also post-humanism
  • Humboldt, Alexander von, 66–7, 68, 73
  • Hume, John, 151
  • Hutton, Revd Hugh, 100, 110n6
  • ‘Illth’ John Ruskin’s term for the opposite of health, 164
  • ILP. See Independent Labour Party (ILP)
  • imperialism 11, 37, 39–40, 41,168, 191, 260, 292. See also postcolonialism, Water with Berries (Lamming)
  • Independent Labour Party (ILP), 166, 167, 168
  • Indigenous people, 285, 289
  • industrial action, 166, 211
  • industrial folk songs, 90
  • industrialisation
  • causing poverty and degradation, 6, 162, 164
  • and ‘Jone o’ Grinfilt’s Ramble’, relevance of, 87
  • labour-saving machines, 161–2, 165, 267, 284.. See also mechanisation
  • ruralist solutions, 8, 167–8
  • Tales from the Derbyshire Hills (Glasier), 162–3, 169–72
  • Insch, Eleanor, 238
  • intermediality, of working-class songs, 91–2, 92–3
  • Irving, Clive, 239
  • Irving, Washington, 98
  • It’s That Man Again (radio programme), 225
  • Ivy Stories (periodical), 183, 184
  • Jähner, Harald, 206
  • James, C.L.R., 252, 256, 260
  • James, John Angell, 98
  • Jeffords, Susan, 206
  • Jenkins, John Perrott, 207, 208, 210–11, 212, 216
  • Jerolmack, Colin, 149
  • Johnson, Jeri, 254
  • Johnston, Ellen, 123
  • ‘Jone o’ Greenfeelt’s Ramble in Search of th’ Green Bag’, 87
  • Jone o’ Grinfilt ballad cycle, 6, 83–4
  • contextual meaning lost through remediation, 85–8
  • genre labelling as remediation, 90–1
  • historical context, reflection of, 84
  • intermediality, 91–2, 92–3
  • musical elements, 85, 88–90, 92
  • oral performance, 83, 85, 91, 92
  • as reflection of working-class quotidian, occupational experiences, 83–4, 87–8
  • ‘Jone o’ Grinfilt Junior’ 93n1. See also ‘Th’ Owdham Weyver’
  • ‘Jone o’ Grinfilt’s Ramble’, 83, 84
  • collection and publication, 85–6
  • genre labelling, 91, 93
  • intermediality, 92
  • musical elements, 88, 89
  • oral performances, 83
  • popularity and transferability, 87
  • provenance, 83, 85–6
  • ‘Jone o’ Grinfilt’s Visit to Mr. Fielden’, 87
  • Jones, Ann (theatre helper), 229
  • Jones, William R., 19
  • Kalliney, Peter, 213
  • Karpeles, Maud, 90, 91
  • Keats, John, 61, 69
  • Keegan, Bridget, 3, 35, 37
  • Kellaway, Kate, 191
  • Kelman, James, 175
  • How Late It Was, How Late, 175
  • Translated Accounts, 175
  • Kemp, Ted, 89
  • Kennedy, Revd Rann, 98
  • Kettle, Roseanna, 38, 40
  • Kidson, Frank, 88, 89
  • Kingsley, Charles, 141
  • Kippis, Andrew, 18, 22–3
  • Kirke White, Henry, 5, 58, 59
  • Clifton Grove, 55, 57, 103
  • ‘My own Character’, 56–7
  • ‘On the Death of Dermody the Poet’, 54–5
  • promotion by Robert Southey, 57, 60–1
  • The Remains of Henry Kirke White, 60
  • Kitt, Frederick J., ‘The Pit Moose’, 151–3
  • Klaus, H. Gustav, 1
  • and ‘alternative and discontinuous traditions’, 222
  • on future analysis of working-class fiction, 205
  • The Red and the Green (with John Rignall), 7, 281–2, 290, 294
  • The Socialist Novel in Britain (1982), 131
  • Tramps, Workmates and Revolutionaries: Working-Class Stories of the 1920s, 296
  • women and socialism, 167
  • on women’s socialist writing, 167
  • Knight, Dame Laura, 266
  • Knight, Stephen, 205
  • Kolinsky, Eva, 212
  • Komlosy, Andrea, 282
  • Kövesi, Simon, 70, 71, 73
  • Kropotkin, Peter, 185, 282–3
  • labour. See work
  • labouring-class, definition, 2
  • labouring-class poets. See also Clare, John; Duck, Stephen; Trotter, Thomas
  • anti-slavery, 35, 37–8, 39
  • Mount Pleasant (Roscoe), 38–9
  • Thomas Trotter, 5, 31–5, 37, 39, 40, 41–3
  • double-voiced quality of, 3, 35
  • James Woodhouse, 3, 4, 5, 50, 295
  • Mary Collier, 2, 11n1, 221
  • promotion of
  • class contempt, 57, 58–9, 60
  • magazines, role of, 50, 51, 52, 53, 57, 58–9, 60
  • marketable grouping (Vernor and Hood ‘boys’), 53–4, 55, 59
  • niche marketing, 61–2
  • role of the professional curator/editor, 49, 50–1, 52, 57–8, 59, 60
  • self-fashioning (Henry Kirke White’s ‘My own Character’), 56–7
  • Labour Party. See Independent Labour Party (ILP)
  • Lamb, Charles, 181
  • Lamming, George, 252, 258
  • Of Age and Innocence, 252
  • In the Castle of My Skin, 252
  • The Emigrants, 253
  • Season of Adventure, 252
  • Water with Berries, 10, 253, 254–5, 255–62
  • Landry, Donna, 3
  • Lansbury, Coral, 146
  • Latour, Bruno, 67
  • Laurie, Ida, 226
  • Lawrence, D.H.
  • Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 237
  • The Virgin and the Gipsy, 269
  • Laws, William (trapper boy), 148
  • Lawton, Thomas (miner), 148
  • Leadbitter, James (‘The Vacuum Cleaner’), Cleaning Up After Capitalism, 223–4
  • The Leader (periodical), 141
  • Le Bas, Damian, 266
  • Lee, Sabine, 206
  • Lees, Joseph, 86
  • Leng, (publisher), 183, 184
  • Lennon, John (literary scholar), 9, 205
  • Lewes, G.H., 137, 140, 141
  • Lewis, Kyle, 285, 293
  • LGBTQ+ individuals, 244, 246n15
  • Lindsay, James S., 244, 246n15
  • ‘Lines on Visiting the Tomb of Dermody, in Lewisham Churchyard’, 52–3
  • Linton, Eliza Lynn, 131–2
  • Realities, 132
  • ‘The Rights and Wrongs of Women’, 132
  • The True History of Joshua Davidson, Christian and Communist, 7, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 141
  • Linton, W.J., 132
  • literary critics, reviewers. See critics
  • literary realism, 182, 183
  • ‘The Little Charwoman’ (sketch), 226
  • Littlewood, Joan, 221, 224, 229
  • Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop, 221, 229
  • Liverpool
  • labouring-class critiques of slavery, 37–8, 41
  • in poems
  • Mount Pleasant (Roscoe), 38–9
  • ‘Verses Written in the Ladies Walk at Liverpool, in January 1783’ (Trotter), 31–2, 33, 37, 39, 40, 42, 43
  • Star Theatre of Varieties, 227
  • Llewellyn, Richard, How Green Was My Valley, 190
  • Lloyd, A.L., 83, 86, 88–9, 90, 91
  • Lloyd, Geoffrey, 206–7
  • Loach, Ken, Bread and Roses, 224
  • Lodge, Sara, 69
  • Lofft, Capel, 50–1, 52, 53, 54, 55, 58, 59, 60, 61
  • Lowth, Bishop Robert, 26
  • Lucan, Arthur, ‘Old Mother Riley’, 225
  • Luhmann, Niklas, 75
  • McAleer, Joseph, 183–4
  • McAlpine, Erica, 71
  • MacColl, Ewan, 89
  • Macdonald, Bradley J., 167
  • MacDonald, Michael, 24, 25
  • MacDuffie, Allen, 164, 172
  • Macfarlane, Helen, 7, 131, 133, 137, 142
  • Communist Manifesto (translation of), 7, 131, 136
  • compared to Eliza Lynn Linton, 131, 132, 133–4, 141
  • compared to George Eliot (Marian Evans), 134, 135–41, 141–2
  • Democratic Review, writings for, 131, 132, 133, 136, 138
  • Red Republican, writings for (under the name Howard Morton), 131, 132, 136
  • ‘Signs of the Times: Red Stockings versus Lawn Sleeves’ (in The Friend of the People), 136
  • McGrath, John, 185
  • machine learning, 288
  • McLeod, John, 253–4
  • Macleod, Robert, ‘The Miner Tae the Midge’, 153–4
  • McMurdo, George, ‘The Wee Pit Moose’, 149–50
  • McRobbie, Angela, 241, 246n12
  • Mantel, Hilary, 175
  • Mao, Douglas, 252
  • marine poets, 44n4
  • Marley, Bob, ‘Small Axe’, 262n1
  • Marsh, Jan, 167–8
  • Marsh, Leslie, 72, 73
  • Martin, George R.R., 175
  • Marwick, Arthur, 208
  • Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) Volume IV/18, 290
  • Marxism. See also Marx, Karl
  • anti-communism in post-war West Germany, 209
  • and early critiques of work, 282–3
  • and feminism, 241, 242
  • and George Lamming, 252, 253, 262
  • labour and alienation, 282
  • Marxist ecology, 11, 281, 286, 290–3
  • post-scarcity, 288–9
  • Social Democratic Federation (SDF), 166–7
  • Marx, Karl, 137. See also Marxism
  • Capital, 180, 290, 291, 292
  • Communist Manifesto, Macfarlane’s translation, 7, 131, 136
  • Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, 290
  • ‘methodological dualism’ and Saito’s metabolic rift, 290–1, 293
  • post-capitalist vision, 291–3, 294
  • productivism, 282, 286, 290, 291, 293
  • Prometheanism, 286, 291, 292
  • and work, 282, 283, 285, 286, 287, 290
  • masculinity
  • ‘Angry Young Men’, 213
  • coal miners as key figures (Britain and West Germany), 206–7
  • crisis of (1950 Britain and West Germany), 212
  • impact of the Second World War (Britain and West Germany), 206, 216
  • men in Gypsy culture, 269, 271, 272, 273
  • in miners’ novels, 9, 205, 206, 207
  • changing socio-cultural conditions, 212–16, 217
  • ideological identification (capitalism and communism), 208–11, 216
  • trade-unionism, 211–12, 215
  • and women, roles of, 208, 212–13, 214–15, 216
  • Mason, Tim, 209
  • Matthew, Theobald, 102
  • Maurice, F.D., 141
  • mechanisation, 146, 161–2, 287–9, 292
  • medial transposition, 92
  • mediation. See also remediation
  • Ethel Smyth’s Three Songs, 176–7
  • and remediation, 85
  • women’s poetry, 7, 113
  • Elizabeth Campbell, editorial influence, 123–7, 128
  • written preservation of oral ballads, 85
  • Megaw, Moira, 239
  • melodrama, 182, 184
  • men. See masculinity
  • Mendelsohn, Janet, 240, 245n4
  • Menely, Tobias, 146–7
  • metabolic rift, 290–1, 292, 293
  • mice (in mines), 147, 148–9, 154, 155
  • poetry of sensibility, 149–53, 155
  • middle classes
  • audience, question of, 8, 175, 176
  • editorial mediation of Elizabeth Campbell’s poems, 113, 123, 126, 128
  • female Crimean War poets, 117
  • former colonies (‘national middle class’), 10, 255–6, 257, 261, 262
  • readers
  • of labouring-class poets, 49, 50–1, 52, 53, 57, 60, 61
  • lacking feeling (‘His Books’ (Holdsworth)), 180
  • leisure time and writing features, 178
  • literary realism and melodrama, 182, 184
  • and the representation of working-class experience, 8, 175, 269
  • Middleton, Anne, The Hidden Wife, 184
  • midges (in mines), 147, 148, 153, 155
  • poetry of sensibility (‘The Miner Tae the Midge’, Macleod), 153–4
  • Milán, Elizabeth, 67
  • Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn, 155–6
  • Mill, John Stuart, 162
  • Millum, Trevor, 240, 246n10
  • miners. See also miners’ novels
  • descriptions of animals, 147–8
  • importance of coal in post-Second World War Britain and Germany, 206–7
  • poetry of sensibility, 7–8, 146–7, 149–54, 155–6
  • miners’ novels, 9, 205, 206, 207
  • masculinity
  • changing socio-cultural conditions, 212–16, 217
  • ideological identification (capitalism and communism), 208–11, 216
  • and trade-unionism, 211–12, 215
  • and women, roles of, 208, 212–13, 214–15, 216
  • ‘Mines and Miners’ (1870), 147
  • Minow-Pinkney, Makiko, 195
  • Mitchell, James, 147–8
  • Mitchell, Juliet, ‘Women: The Longest Revolution’, 240–1
  • Moitra, Stefan, 208, 209
  • Montagu, Elizabeth, 50
  • Montaigne, Michel de, 65
  • The Monthly Mirror, publicity for labouring-class poets, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57
  • The Monthly Review, 24, 57
  • Monty Python, 226
  • Moore, Jason W., 285, 292, 293
  • Moran, Mary, 226
  • More, Hannah, 50
  • Morell, Revd Thomas, 20
  • Morris, William, 163, 167–8, 172
  • Chants for Socialists, 162
  • ‘Morton, Howard’. See Macfarlane, Helen
  • Morton, Timothy, 67, 71
  • Mulligan, Hugh, 40
  • as co-editor of The Herald, 40
  • eclogues, 38
  • Poems, Chiefly on Slavery and Oppression, 38
  • Mulso, John, letter to Gilbert White, 16–17
  • Munnings, Sir Alfred, 266
  • Muntz, George, 99
  • Murphy, Terence R., 24
  • Myers, Ben, 274
  • Naipaul, V.S., 253
  • Guerrillas, 252
  • Native American advocacy, 289
  • nature. See also anthropocentrism; ecosocialism
  • animals in mines 7–8, 147–8, 155–6. See also mice (in mines); midges (in mines)
  • climate change, 11, 285, 287
  • Elizabeth Campbell’s poetry, 121, 126
  • Gypsy women’s autobiographies, 270
  • metabolic rift, 290–1, 292, 293
  • stigmergy, 72, 73
  • tamed by industrialisation, 161
  • Navy. See Royal Navy
  • Nazism, 209
  • neoliberalism, 283, 285
  • Newton, John, 32, 41
  • Nilsson, Magnus, 9, 205
  • nonconformist preachers
  • George Dawson, 100, 108
  • John Angell James, 98
  • Norquay, Glenda, 196
  • North. See Global North (and Western Eurocentrism)
  • novels. See working-class novels and short stories
  • occupation songs, 90
  • Oliver, William, 20
  • Onof, Christian, 72
  • oral traditions. See Jone o’ Grinfilt ballad cycle
  • Osborne, John, Look Back in Anger, 225
  • O’Sullivan, Patrick, 172
  • Oswald, John, 66
  • The Cry of Nature, 66
  • ‘Th’ Owdham Weyver’, 83, 84, 85
  • genre labelling, 91, 93
  • musical elements, 85, 88–9
  • popularity and transferability, 84, 87–8
  • provenance, 83, 86
  • Owen, Robert, 6, 99
  • Palin, Michael, The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball, 226
  • Parrique, Timothée, 283
  • patronage
  • changing nature of (for nineteenth century writers), 50, 51
  • mediation of women’s writing, 7, 113, 114, 123, 128
  • Thomas Trotter’s naval career, 41
  • Penguin Books, 237
  • Perkins, David, 65, 74
  • Perry, George, ‘The Prophecy of Commerce’, 32
  • pests, animals as, 148–9, 153, 154–5
  • Petley, Christer, 41
  • Phelan, Joseph, 70
  • Philo, Chris, 155
  • ‘Piston, Pen and Press’ project, 146
  • pit ponies, 154
  • Pitt, Malcolm, 213
  • Pluckrose, Helen, 244
  • poetry of sensibility, 7–8, 146–7, 155–6
  • ‘Lines Addressed to a Mouse’ (Wilson), 150–1
  • ‘The Miner Tae the Midge’ (Macleod), 153–4
  • ‘The Pit Moose’ (Kitt), 151–3
  • ‘The Wee Pit Moose’ (McMurdo), 149–50
  • postcolonialism, Water with Berries (Lamming)
  • enduring colonial relations, 10, 254–5, 258–60, 262
  • ‘national middle class’, 10, 255–6, 257, 261, 262
  • post-racial possibilities, 256, 257–8, 260
  • postdevelopment, 289–90, 293, 294
  • post-humanism, 65, 66, 67, 76
  • and John Clare’s challenge to anthropocentrism (Northborough sonnets), 5, 67, 69, 70–1, 72–6, 77
  • Postone, Moishe, 283, 287, 290, 295
  • post-scarcity, 288–9, 295
  • post-work utopianism, 286
  • Powell, Rachel, 239
  • Prince, John Critchley, 100–1
  • Hours with the Muses, 100
  • Prince, William (Reading apothecary and coroner), 25
  • prison conditions, 108
  • Proctor, Adelaide Ann, 117
  • productive employment. See also productivism
  • and socialist utopias, 165
  • productivism
  • defined, 282
  • degrowth theory, 283–90
  • early critiques of work, 282–3
  • Marx’s productivist tendencies, 282, 286, 290, 291, 293
  • new directions and discourses of work critique, 294–6
  • post-capitalist possibilities, 291–3, 294
  • Prometheanism, 282, 286, 287, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295
  • Proust, Francis, 137
  • publishers
  • DC Thomson, 183–4
  • Leng, 183, 184
  • Penguin Books, 237
  • Vernor and Hood, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 58, 59, 60
  • publishing industry
  • editorial mediation of women’s poetry, 7, 113, 123–7, 128
  • mediators of poetry, 7, 49
  • nineteenth-century changes, 49, 50
  • promotion of labouring-class poets
  • class contempt, 57, 58–9, 60
  • magazines, role of, 50, 51, 52, 53, 57, 58–9, 60
  • marketable grouping (Vernor and Hood ‘boys’), 53–4, 55, 59
  • niche marketing, 61–2
  • role of the professional curator/editor, 49, 50–1, 52, 57–8, 59, 60
  • race. See Caribbean literature; Indigenous people
  • radicalism, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 66
  • Rajewsky, Irina O., 91, 92
  • Ramdin, Ron, 251
  • Ransome, Arthur, Swallows and Amazons, 196–7
  • Rathbone, Sarah (wife of H.H. Horton), 99, 101, 107
  • rationalist humanism, 65, 66
  • reading
  • and the double-voiced quality (of labouring-class writing), 2–3, 35
  • and immersion/nonconformity, 197
  • and intertextuality (in the reading by coal miners), 146–7
  • of labouring-class poets, 49, 50–1, 52, 53, 57, 60, 61
  • reading methods and writing features, 178
  • representation of working-class experience (to middle-class readers), 8, 175, 269
  • working-class readers, treatment by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, 177–86
  • Reading (town), 15–26
  • Rechabites, Independent Order of, 101
  • The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Planet, 289
  • Red Nation, 289, 293
  • Red Republican (periodical), Helen Macfarlane’s writings in, 131, 132, 136, 141
  • Regulated Slave Trade Act (Sir Dolben’s Bill, 1788), 32, 34
  • Reill, Peter Hans, 66–7, 68
  • religion, 66, 33, 99, 133–4, 194, 200
  • remediation. See also mediation
  • defined, 6, 85
  • Jone o’ Grinfilt ballad cycle
  • contextual meaning, 85–8
  • genre labelling, 90–1
  • intermediality, 91–2, 92–3
  • musical elements, 85, 88–90
  • and mediation, 85
  • as reform and the loss of contextual meaning, 85
  • reproductive labour, 285, 286, 287
  • Reschke, Willi, Schlagende Wetter, 207
  • Richardson, Samuel, letters to Thomas Edwards, 16
  • Ridley, Dr James, 26
  • Ritson, Joseph, 66
  • Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food, 66
  • Ritvo, Harriet, 145, 154
  • Rizq, Rosemary, 195, 196
  • Rockwell, Norman, ‘Charwomen in Theater’, 224
  • Roddam, Robert, 41
  • Rogoff, Gordon, 225
  • Rolland, Roy, ‘Old Mother Riley’, 225
  • Roma gypsies, 265
  • romantic novelettes, 180, 183–4
  • Roscoe, William
  • Mount Pleasant, 38–9
  • Wrongs of Africa, 44n5
  • von Rosenberg, Ingrid, 210
  • Rosenberg, J.D., 164
  • Ross, Mary (drowning victim), 21
  • Rothwell, Erika, 165, 166, 167
  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 65, 66
  • Rowbotham, Sheila, Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World 241, 269
  • Royal Navy
  • naval physicians, 33, 34
  • Thomas Trotter, 5, 33, 35, 36–7, 41–2, 43
  • patronage system, 41
  • slave trade, role in, 32–3, 35, 41
  • Roy, Kate, 197
  • Ruddiman Jr., Walter, 35, 36
  • Rushton, Edward, 37, 40
  • as co-editor of The Herald, 40
  • The Dismember’d Empire, 39–40
  • West-Indian Eclogues, 37, 39
  • Ruskin, John, 164, 168
  • ‘The Nature of Gothic’, 164
  • Unto This Last, 164
  • Saito, Kohei, 282, 290–3, 294
  • Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, 290–3
  • Sargeant, Amy, 225
  • Sassi, Carla, 193
  • Saturday Review (periodical), 132
  • Savage, Mike, 211–12
  • Schmelzer, Matthias, 283, 285, 289, 293
  • Schreiner, Olive, 166
  • Schwarz, Suzanne, 34
  • scientific socialism, 283
  • Scotland, linguistic division, 191, 192
  • SDF. See Social Democratic Federation (SDF)
  • SEAST. See Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (SEAST)
  • Selvon, Sam, Moses Ascending, 252
  • sensibility. See poetry of sensibility
  • Shakespeare, William
  • and H.H. Horton, 100
  • The Tempest and Lamming’s Water with Berries, 258–9, 260
  • and working-class readers, 179–80
  • shanty, as a form of work-song, 90
  • Sharpe, Granville, 40, 41
  • Shaw, George Bernard, 230
  • Candida, 227
  • Shore, Arabella, 117
  • Shore, Louisa, 117
  • Showell, John W., 101
  • Sibree, John, 134
  • Sillitoe, Alan, 199
  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, 213
  • Sivanandan, Ambalavaner, 251
  • slavery. See also anti-slavery
  • ‘Avaro and Amanda’ (Duck), 3
  • Brooks (slave ship), 33, 34, 40, 42, 43
  • factory work as, 177
  • ‘Francis the Slave’ (Elizabeth Campbell), 122
  • Regulated Slave Trade Act (1788), 32, 34
  • Royal Navy’s role, 32–3, 35, 41
  • ‘Slave’s Story’ (Holdsworth), 176
  • tacit cultural acceptance, 37, 40
  • witness accounts, 32, 40–1
  • Smith-Bendell, Maggie, 268, 269
  • Our Forgotten Years: A Gypsy Woman’s Life on the Road, 268, 270, 271
  • Smith, Evan, 253
  • Smith, Jess, 268, 269, 270–1, 272, 273
  • Autobiography of a Travelling Girl, 268
  • Smith, Ruby, interview with Louise Doughty, 274, 276
  • Smyth, Ethel, Three Songs, 176–7
  • Smyth, Laura, 89
  • Social Democratic Federation (SDF), 166–7
  • socialism. See also ecosocialism
  • and Christianity, 132, 134, 141
  • and economic development, 281, 284
  • and feminism, 241, 286, 287
  • of Katharine Bruce Glasier, 165, 166–7
  • political pamphlets, Socialism for Children, 164, 165
  • The Road to Socialism, 161, 162, 164, 165
  • postdevelopment, 290
  • and work, 283
  • Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (SEAST), 38, 40
  • Sokolowski, Robert, 77
  • Somerville, Alexander, 104
  • sonnets
  • human condition, exploration of, 69
  • John Clare’s early poems, 69
  • Northborough sonnets (Clare), 5, 67, 69–75, 76, 77
  • South. See Global South
  • Southey, Robert, 4, 5, 18, 49, 57, 60–1
  • Life of Nelson, 180
  • Remains of Henry Kirke White (as editor), 60–61
  • Soviet Marxism, 293
  • Sowan, Adam, 23
  • Spence, Charles, 223
  • Spence, Joseph, 25, 26
  • Spence, Thomas, 66
  • Spencer, Jane, 66
  • Srnicek, Nick, 286–7, 288, 290, 293, 294
  • The Stage (periodical), 227
  • Star Theatre of Varieties, Liverpool, 227
  • Stephen, Leslie, 4, 18
  • stigmergy, 72, 73
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, 122, 129n6
  • Strauss, David, The Life of Jesus Critically Examined, 136
  • Stronge, Will, 285, 293
  • Sturge, Joseph, 101, 102
  • suicide
  • changing attitudes towards, 23–4
  • Stephen Duck, death of
  • accounts of, a brief history, 2, 16–19
  • a suicide counter-narrative, 19–26
  • Summers, Dorothy, Mrs Mopp, 225
  • surrealism, 295, 296
  • Susik, Abigail, 282, 295–6
  • sustainable development, 283
  • Sutton Coldfield, 98, 103
  • Swan, Revd Thomas, 101
  • Synge, J.M., 228–9
  • Tange, Hanne, 194
  • Tatham, Emma, 117
  • Taylor, John, 61, 67–8
  • Tee, Ve-Yin, 295
  • temperance movement (Birmingham), 99, 101–2, 103
  • Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’, 117
  • Thatcher, Margaret, 243
  • theatre cleaners, 9, 222, 230–1
  • accidents and incidents, 227
  • in art, 223–4
  • crediting as part of the community, 229
  • economic and social status, 228–9
  • in film and TV, 224–5
  • fundamental role of, 221–2
  • gender, 223, 227
  • stage depictions of, 226
  • and theatre history, 223
  • unexpected knowledge, 230–1
  • Theobald, Father Matthew, 102
  • Thom, William, 100
  • trade unions, 153, 165, 211–12, 215
  • Tronti, Mario, 283, 286
  • Trotter, Thomas, 4, 5, 32–5, 36–7, 40, 41
  • medical writing, Observations on the Scurvy, 5, 42–3
  • poems
  • ‘Mourning Shepherdess’, 36
  • ‘Ode to Autumn’, 36
  • ‘Ode to Winter’, 36
  • ‘The Origin of Grog’, 36
  • ‘Verses Written in the Ladies Walk at Liverpool, in January 1783’, 31–2, 33, 37, 39, 40, 42, 43
  • written under pseudonym, ‘T.T Melrosensis’, 35–6
  • written whilst in the navy, 36–7
  • Turner, Fredric, 18
  • The Two Columbines (film), 224–5
  • Unity Theatre, 9
  • Universal Basic Income, 286, 288
  • ‘The Vacuum Cleaner’ (James Leadbitter), Cleaning Up After Capitalism, 223–4
  • Vaizey, Hester, 206, 208
  • Vale, Brian, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36–7, 40, 41, 42, 43
  • Valle Alcalá, Roberto del, 199, 282, 294–5
  • Vansintjan, Aaron, 282, 283, 284, 285, 289, 293
  • variety theatre, 225, 226
  • Vernor and Hood, publishers, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 58, 59, 60
  • Vetter, Andrea, 283, 285, 289, 293
  • Vice, Sue, 195
  • Villella, Edward, 225
  • Wages for Housework movement, 285, 286
  • Walters, Julie, 230
  • Watson, Henry, 88
  • Weber, Max, 282, 285, 293
  • Webster, Jane, 34, 42, 43
  • Weeks, Kathi, 285–6, 290, 293, 294
  • Weiner, Stephanie, 70–1
  • Westminster Review (periodical), 136, 137
  • Weston, Thomas, 102
  • Whannel, Paddy, 237
  • White, Henry Kirke. See Kirke White, Henry
  • Whyte, Betsy, 268, 269
  • Red Rowans and Wild Honey, 268, 270, 271, 272, 273
  • The Yellow on the Broom, 268, 271, 272, 273
  • Whytock, Peter, 114, 115, 123, 128, 128–9n1
  • Wiesen, S. Jonathan, 209
  • Wilbert, Chris, 155
  • Williams, Alex, 287, 288, 290, 293
  • Williams, Eric, The Wooden Horse, 206
  • Williams, Raymond, 167, 168, 208, 239
  • Willis, Paul, 240, 246n8
  • Wilson, Arthur, ‘Lines Addressed to a Mouse’, 150–1, 156
  • Wilson, E.O., 73
  • Wilson, Nicola, 176
  • Windrush generation, 10, 251–2, 253
  • Windsor, Barbara, 221
  • Winnall, H., 108
  • ‘Winnie’ (theatre cleaner and prompter, Everyman), 230
  • Winship, Janice, 241, 246n11
  • Wolfe, Cary, 73, 77
  • Wolloch, Nathaniel, 65, 66, 68
  • Wollstonecraft, Mary, 132
  • The Woman Worker (periodical), 177–8, 179
  • women. See also clever girls; feminism; women’s work
  • education, 165–6, 189, 190, 191–2, 199, 200
  • emancipation of, 132, 136, 199
  • gender roles in miners’ novels (post-war Britain and West Germany), 208, 211, 212–13, 214–15, 216
  • gender and theatre cleaning, 223, 227
  • in Gypsy culture, 272–4
  • Gypsy women’s autobiographies, 268–74
  • as patrons, 50
  • and the promotion of labouring-class poets, 50, 57
  • radicalism of Eliza Lynn Linton, George Eliot and Helen Macfarlane, 7, 131, 132, 134–5, 136–7, 142
  • reading by, treatment by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, 177–86
  • roles, during the Second World War, 206, 208
  • strikes, 166
  • women novelists. See Doughty, Louise; Eliot, George (Marian Evans); Holdsworth, Ethel Carnie; Linton, Eliza Lynn; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
  • women poets. See also Campbell, Elizabeth; Collier, Mary, The Woman’s Labour
  • Crimean war poets, 117, 118
  • editorial mediation, 7, 113, 123–7, 128
  • women radical writers. See Glasier, Katharine Bruce; Macfarlane, Helen
  • women’s work
  • at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 238–40, 241–3
  • ‘double shift’, 2, 178
  • factory workers as readers, 177–9, 182, 184
  • General Belinda (Holdsworth), 180
  • Gypsies, 272–3
  • reproductive labour in feminist degrowth theory, 285, 286, 287
  • socialisation of labour, 199
  • The Woman’s Labour (Collier), 2, 221
  • women’s roles in miners’ novels (Britain and West Germany), 208, 213, 216
  • Women Take Issue: Aspects of Women’s Subordination, 235, 237, 241, 242
  • Woodhouse, James, 3, 4, 5, 50, 295
  • Wordsworth, William, 98
  • work
  • anti-productivist resistance, 294–6
  • causing metabolic rift, 290–1, 292, 293
  • coal mining and working-class masculinity, 207, 208–9, 210, 211–12, 213, 215, 216
  • early critiques of, 282–3
  • Karl Marx’s view of, 282, 283, 285, 286, 287, 290
  • technological automation, 161–2, 287–9, 292
  • and theories of degrowth, 284–5, 294–5
  • women’s work. See women’s work
  • ‘writers who worked at sea’ 37–8. See also Trotter, Thomas
  • working-class, definition, 2
  • working-class novels and short stories. See also Eliot, George (Marian Evans); miners’ novels
  • by Holdsworth, Ethel Carnie, 176, 177, 180–1, 182, 183, 184–5
  • by Linton, Eliza Lynn, 7, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 141
  • Clever Girl (Hadley), 189, 190, 191, 192–3, 194, 195, 197–8, 199–200, 200
  • Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (Stowe), 122, 129n6
  • A Scots Quair (Gibon), 189, 190, 191–2, 193–5, 196, 197, 198–9, 200
  • Stone Cradle (Doughty), 10, 268, 274–6
  • Water with Berries (Lamming), 10, 253, 254–5, 255–62
  • working-class poets 146. See also Campbell, Elizabeth; Holdsworth, Ethel Carnie; Horton, Harry Howells; Kitt, Frederick J., ‘The Pit Moose’; labouring-class poets; Macleod, Robert, ‘The Miner Tae the Midge’; McMurdo, George, ‘The Wee Pit Moose’; Wilson, Arthur, ‘Lines Addressed to a Mouse’
  • working-class songs 84, 85, 92, 93. See also Jone o’ Grinfilt ballad cycle
  • work-songs, 90
  • Wrekk, Heinz, Jungens an der Ruhr, 207
  • Yearsley, Ann, 5, 50
  • Zong (slave ship), 41

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