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dc.contributor.authorByrne, Aidan
dc.contributor.authorSheppard, Lisa
dc.contributor.editorGoodridge, John
dc.contributor.editorKeegan, Bridget
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-12T11:14:49Z
dc.date.available2017-12-12T11:14:49Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.isbn9781108105392
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/9781108105392
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/620987
dc.description.abstractA 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.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/books/history-of-british-workingclass-literature/F332FDF6B63682CD5FA48350584826D0#fndtn-information
dc.subjectWales
dc.subjectCymru
dc.subjectllenyddiaeth
dc.subjectcymraeg
dc.subjectliterature
dc.subjectworking class
dc.subjectclass
dc.subjectWelsh writing in English
dc.titleA Critical Minefield: the Haunting of the Welsh Working Class Novel
dc.typeChapter in book
dc.identifier.journalA History of British Working Class Literature
pubs.edition1st Edition
pubs.place-of-publicationCambridge, UK
dc.source.beginpage385
dc.source.endpage397
html.description.abstractA 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.


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