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British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700: Dedication
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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Foreword: remembering H. Gustav Klaus
Works cited
Written by H. Gustav Klaus
Edited or co-edited by H. Gustav Klaus
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note
Works cited
Part I: The making of the working-class writer
1. ‘There is an End of the Thresher’s Labours’: Stephen Duck’s enigmatic death
A brief history of accounts of Duck’s death
A suicide counter-narrative
Notes
Works cited
Periodicals
2. Other realms of labouring-class antislavery: the early verse and medical writing of Thomas Trotter
From peasant to physician: Trotter’s poetic aspirations
Censure and censorship: ‘Ladies Walk’ in a local and literary context
Embedding antislavery: Trotter’s Observations on the Scurvy (1786)
Notes
Works cited
3. The rise, fall and revival of labouring-class poetry in the commercial market, 1800–1821
The farmer’s boy and the Irish soldier go to market: Robert Bloomfield and Thomas Dermody
Death by numbers: Nathaniel Bloomfield, Henry Kirke White and the perils of promotion
Dead poets resurrected: editorial curation and niche marketing
Works cited
Periodicals
4. The post-humanist John Clare
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Part II: Nineteenth-century developments
5. Mediated melodies: Jone o’ Grinfilt and the challenges of ballad preservation
The (re)mediated melodies of Jone o’ Grinfilt
Between music and media
Reclaiming music at the margins
Notes
Works cited
6. Friend of the people: the poetry of H.H. Horton (1811–96) of Birmingham
Notes
Works cited
Works by H.H. Horton
Secondary sources
Periodicals
7. Rewriting trauma: Elizabeth Campbell’s unedited and edited poems
Elizabeth Duncan Campbell (1804–78)
Campbell’s early Poems: the Crimean War
Campbell’s early Poems: transcendence and loss
Songs of My Pilgrimage, 1875
Notes
Works cited
Obituaries
8. Helen Macfarlane: a radical among middle-class women writers of the mid-nineteenth century
Works cited
9. The pit mice: animals in the mines and the working-class poet
Notes
Works cited
Part III: Twentieth-century pioneers
10. Paving the road to socialism: the political leadership and pastoral writing of Katharine Glasier (1867–1950)
A socialist response to sprawling industrialism
Ecosocialist alternatives in Tales from the Derbyshire Hills
Notes
Works cited
11. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and the question of audience
Note
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Works by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
Periodicals
Secondary sources
12. Intersections of class and gender in the fiction of Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Tessa Hadley
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Part IV: Post-war issues: deindustrialisation, casual work and feminism
13. A crisis in masculinity? A comparison between English and West German miners’ novels, 1945–70
Note
Works cited
14. ‘Woman Wanted. Theatre Cleaner (8–12 daily)’: the missing literature of the empty mopped stage
Note
Works cited
Newspapers and Periodicals
15. Thieves in the night: women in the early days of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
Notes
Works cited
Part V: Contemporary developments: empire, ecology and belonging
16. The Caribbean radical tradition and diasporic politics in George Lamming’s Water with Berries
Note
Works cited
17. Gypsy women’s lives: facts, autobiographies and Louise Doughty’s novel Stone Cradle
A brief history of the Gypsies in Britain
Changing lifestyle
The testimony of Gypsy women’s autobiographies
The view of a woman novelist: Louise Doughty’s Stone Cradle
Note
Works cited
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Further reading
18. Degrowth and Marxist ecology: new directions for criticism after Gustav Klaus
Early critiques of work
Degrowth
Ecological
Feminist
Automation
Postdevelopment
Summary
Kohei Saito’s Marx in the Anthropocene
Saito and degrowth
New directions in criticism
Works cited
Index
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In memory of H. Gustav Klaus (1944–2020)
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