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Class and the Canon

Constructing Labouring-Class Poetry and Poetics, 1780-1900
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Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137030320
eText ISBN:9781137030337
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in relation to contemporaries and poets from earlier periods, this book highlights the complexities of labouring-class poetic identities in the period from Burns to mid-late century Victorian dialect poets.