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Notes
table of contents
Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword: remembering H. Gustav Klaus
- Christian Schmitt-Kilb
- Works cited
- Written by H. Gustav Klaus
- Edited or co-edited by H. Gustav Klaus
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen
- 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
- William J. Christmas
- 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
- Adam Bridgen
- 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
- Tim Fulford
- 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
- Simon J. White
- Works cited
- Part II Nineteenth-century developments
- 5. Mediated melodies: Jone o’ Grinfilt and the challenges of ballad preservation
- Rebekah Erdman
- 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
- Stephen Roberts
- Notes
- Works cited
- Works by H.H. Horton
- Secondary sources
- Periodicals
- 7. Rewriting trauma: Elizabeth Campbell’s unedited and edited poems
- Florence S. Boos
- 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
- John Rignall
- Works cited
- 9. The pit mice: animals in the mines and the working-class poet
- Kirstie Blair
- 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)
- Heidi Renée Aijala
- 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
- Kathleen Bell
- Note
- Works cited
- Works by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
- Periodicals
- Secondary sources
- 12. Intersections of class and gender in the fiction of Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Tessa Hadley
- Livi Michael
- Works cited
- 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
- Steve Eszrenyi
- Note
- Works cited
- 14. ‘Woman Wanted. Theatre Cleaner (8–12 daily)’: the missing literature of the empty mopped stage
- Sarah K. Whitfield
- Note
- Works cited
- Newspapers and Periodicals
- 15. Thieves in the night: women in the early days of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
- Monika Seidl
- 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
- Matti Ron
- Note
- Works cited
- 17. Gypsy women’s lives: facts, autobiographies and Louise Doughty’s novel Stone Cradle
- Ingrid von Rosenberg
- 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
- Luke Lewin Davies
- 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