English Labouring-Class Poets, 1700–1900
General Editor: John Goodridge
Over one hundred poets of labouring-class origin were published in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some were hugely popular and important in their day but few are available today. Previously these writers have not been considered away from mainstream bourgeois writers. This series breaks new ground in allowing these poets to be represented as a group who shared similar experiences, challenges, pitfalls and successes. This collection shows these labouring class writers as a separate, though parallel, tradition through which we can trace unique thematic and formal concerns which are not clear when these writers are submerged in the literary mainstream.
The re-publication of this body of work dramatically reshapes a whole series of critical conceptions and assumptions about eighteenth-and nineteenth-century literature, society, and literary culture.
Each set has a substantive general introduction, and each poet featured has a brief introduction to their work, a chronology and endnotes. Every volume is indexed and all texts are fully reset.
Readership
The re-publication of this body of work dramatically reshapes a whole series of critical conceptions and assumptions about eighteenth-and nineteenth-century literature, society, and literary culture.
Editorial board
John Goodridge is at Nottingham Trent University. He is author of Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry (1996) and editor of the John Clare Society Journal.
Published titles
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