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The working-class intellectual in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain
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- Creator
- edited by Aruna Krishnamurthy
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- ix, 257 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780754665045, 0754665046
- OCLC
- ocn244293295
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Aruna Krishnamurthy -- 'From threshing corn, he turns to thresh his brains': Stephen Duck as laboring-class intellectual / William J. Christmas -- Protest and performance: Ann Yearsley's poems on several occasions / Monica Smith Hart -- Hoddin' Grey an' A' that: Robert Burns's head, class hybridity, and the value of the ploughman's mantle / Luke R.J. Maynard -- Coffeehouse vs. Alehouse: notes on the making of the eighteenth-century working-class intellectual / Aruna Krishnamurthy -- Genre in the Chartist periodical / Rob Breton -- Shakespeare in the early working-class press / Kathryn Prince -- Radical satire and respectability: comic imagination in Hone, Jerrold, and Dickens / Sambudha Sen -- "The unaccredited hero": Alton Locke, Thomas Carlyle, and the formation of the working-class intellectual / Richard Salmon -- Alexander Somerville's rise from serfdom: working-class self-fashioning through journalism, autobiography, and political economy / Julie F. Codell -- Politeness and intertextuality in Michael Faraday's artisan essay-circle / Alice Jenkins -- Playing at poverty: the music hall and the staging of the working class / Ian Peddie
Subjects
- Working class -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Working class -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Working class -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
- Intellectuals -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Intellectuals -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life.