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Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Foreword: remembering H. Gustav Klaus
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The making of the working-class writer
Part II: Nineteenth-century developments
Part III: Twentieth-century pioneers
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
Part V: Contemporary developments: empire, ecology and belonging
Index

Contents

Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Foreword: remembering H. Gustav Klaus
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Note
2. Works cited
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
  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
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
  1. Notes
  2. Works cited
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
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
  1. Note
  2. Works cited
3. 12. Intersections of class and gender in the fiction of Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Tessa Hadley
  1. Works cited
Part IV: Post-war issues: deindustrialisation, casual work and feminism
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
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
Index

List of Figures

Figure 7.1 Obituary photograph of Peter Whytock, Dundee Courier, 4 November 1904 (in the public domain).
Figure 7.2 Elizabeth Campbell, frontispiece to Songs of My Pilgrimage (Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1875) (in the public domain).

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Foreword: remembering H. Gustav Klaus
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The making of the working-class writer
1. ‘There is an End of the Thresher’s Labours’: Stephen Duck’s enigmatic death
Index

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