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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

Contents

  1. List of figures
  2. Notes on contributors
  3. Foreword: remembering H. Gustav Klaus
  4. Christian Schmitt-Kilb
  5. Works cited
  6. Written by H. Gustav Klaus
  7. Edited or co-edited by H. Gustav Klaus
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. John Goodridge and Adam Bridgen
  11. Note
  12. Works cited
  13. Part I  The making of the working-class writer
  14. 1.   ‘There is an End of the Thresher’s Labours’: Stephen Duck’s enigmatic death
  15. William J. Christmas
  16. A brief history of accounts of Duck’s death
  17. A suicide counter-narrative
  18. Notes
  19. Works cited
  20. Periodicals
  21. 2.   Other realms of labouring-class antislavery: the early verse and medical writing of Thomas Trotter
  22. Adam Bridgen
  23. From peasant to physician: Trotter’s poetic aspirations
  24. Censure and censorship: ‘Ladies Walk’ in a local and literary context
  25. Embedding antislavery: Trotter’s Observations on the Scurvy (1786)
  26. Notes
  27. Works cited
  28. 3.   The rise, fall and revival of labouring-class poetry in the commercial market, 1800–1821
  29. Tim Fulford
  30. The farmer’s boy and the Irish soldier go to market: Robert Bloomfield and Thomas Dermody
  31. Death by numbers: Nathaniel Bloomfield, Henry Kirke White and the perils of promotion
  32. Dead poets resurrected: editorial curation and niche marketing
  33. Works cited
  34. Periodicals
  35. 4.   The post-humanist John Clare
  36. Simon J. White
  37. Works cited
  38. Part II  Nineteenth-century developments
  39. 5.   Mediated melodies: Jone o’ Grinfilt and the challenges of ballad preservation
  40. Rebekah Erdman
  41. The (re)mediated melodies of Jone o’ Grinfilt
  42. Between music and media
  43. Reclaiming music at the margins
  44. Notes
  45. Works cited
  46. 6.   Friend of the people: the poetry of H.H. Horton (1811–96) of Birmingham
  47. Stephen Roberts
  48. Notes
  49. Works cited
  50. Works by H.H. Horton
  51. Secondary sources
  52. Periodicals
  53. 7.   Rewriting trauma: Elizabeth Campbell’s unedited and edited poems
  54. Florence S. Boos
  55. Elizabeth Duncan Campbell (1804–78)
  56. Campbell’s early Poems: the Crimean War
  57. Campbell’s early Poems: transcendence and loss
  58. Songs of My Pilgrimage, 1875
  59. Notes
  60. Works cited
  61. Obituaries
  62. 8.   Helen Macfarlane: a radical among middle-class women writers of the mid-nineteenth century
  63. John Rignall
  64. Works cited
  65. 9.   The pit mice: animals in the mines and the working-class poet
  66. Kirstie Blair
  67. Notes
  68. Works cited
  69. Part III  Twentieth-century pioneers
  70. 10. Paving the road to socialism: the political leadership and pastoral writing of Katharine Glasier (1867–1950)
  71. Heidi Renée Aijala
  72. A socialist response to sprawling industrialism
  73. Ecosocialist alternatives in Tales from the Derbyshire Hills
  74. Notes
  75. Works cited
  76. 11. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and the question of audience
  77. Kathleen Bell
  78. Note
  79. Works cited
  80. Works by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
  81. Periodicals
  82. Secondary sources
  83. 12. Intersections of class and gender in the fiction of Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Tessa Hadley
  84. Livi Michael
  85. Works cited
  86. Part IV  Post-war issues: deindustrialisation, casual work and feminism
  87. 13. A crisis in masculinity? A comparison between English and West German miners’ novels, 1945–70
  88. Steve Eszrenyi
  89. Note
  90. Works cited
  91. 14. ‘Woman Wanted. Theatre Cleaner (8–12 daily)’: the missing literature of the empty mopped stage
  92. Sarah K. Whitfield
  93. Note
  94. Works cited
  95. Newspapers and Periodicals
  96. 15. Thieves in the night: women in the early days of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
  97. Monika Seidl
  98. Notes
  99. Works cited
  100. Part V  Contemporary developments: empire, ecology and belonging
  101. 16. The Caribbean radical tradition and diasporic politics in George Lamming’s Water with Berries
  102. Matti Ron
  103. Note
  104. Works cited
  105. 17. Gypsy women’s lives: facts, autobiographies and Louise Doughty’s novel Stone Cradle
  106. Ingrid von Rosenberg
  107. A brief history of the Gypsies in Britain
  108. Changing lifestyle
  109. The testimony of Gypsy women’s autobiographies
  110. The view of a woman novelist: Louise Doughty’s Stone Cradle
  111. Note
  112. Works cited
  113. Primary sources
  114. Secondary sources
  115. Further reading
  116. 18. Degrowth and Marxist ecology: new directions for criticism after Gustav Klaus
  117. Luke Lewin Davies
  118. Early critiques of work
  119. Degrowth
  120. Ecological
  121. Feminist
  122. Automation
  123. Postdevelopment
  124. Summary
  125. Kohei Saito’s Marx in the Anthropocene
  126. Saito and degrowth
  127. New directions in criticism
  128. Works cited
  129. Index

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