Bridget Keegan

Gary Day

Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture. Designed to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource for literature students, each handbook provides the essential information and guidance needed from the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills. Written in clear language by leading academics, they provide an indispensable introduction to key topics, including: Introduction to authors, texts, historical and cultural contexts Guides to key critics, concepts and topics An overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research Case studies in reading literary and critical texts Annotated bibliography (including websites), timeline, glossary of critical terms. The Eighteenth-Century Literature Handbook is an invaluable introduction to literature and culture in the eighteenth century.

The Eighteenth-Century Literature Handbook

Hugh Haughton

Tom Paulin

Gary Harrison

Peter Cox

Louise Sylvester

Mary Moyse

The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.

John Clare Society Journal, 17 (1998)

Tim Fulford

Kerri Andrews

Presents the works of Ann Yearsley, a laboring-class poet' whose writing forms part of an under-represented area of romanticism. This work includes her play "Earl Goodwin" and novel "The Royal Captives".

The Collected Works of Ann Yearsley Vol 3

John Goodridge

Simon White

This collection includes essays that consider how Bloomfield's poetry contributes to an understanding of the predominant issues, forms, and themes of literary Romanticism.

Lyric, Class, and the Romantic Canon

Robert Bloomfield

Jonathan Bate

Robert Heyes

Sam Ward

Bill Phillips

Carry Akroyd

Kelsey Thornton

Roger Sales

Misty Beck

Kim Taplin

John Clare Society Journal, 21 (2002)

David Blamires

Edmund Blunden

Matthew Smith

Edward Storey

Valerie Shepherd

Sean Street

William C. Engels

John Clare Society Journal, 15 (1996)

A History of British Working-Class Literature examines the rich contributions of working-class writers in Great Britain from 1700 to the present. Since the early eighteenth century the phenomenon of working-class writing has been recognised, but almost invariably co-opted in some ultimately distorting manner, whether as examples of 'natural genius'; a Victorian self-improvement ethic; or as an aspect of the heroic workers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century radical culture. The present work contrastingly applies a wide variety of interpretive approaches to this literature. Essays on more familiar topics, such as the 'agrarian idyll' of John Clare, are mixed with entirely new areas in the field like working-class women's 'life-narratives'. This authoritative and comprehensive History explores a wide range of genres such as travel writing, the verse-epistle, the elegy and novels, while covering aspects of Welsh, Scottish, Ulster/Irish culture and transatlantic perspectives.

A History of British Working Class Literature

Bridget Keegan

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