Class and the Canon: Constructing Labouring-Class Poetry and Poetics, 1780-1900

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.

KERRI ANDREWS Lecturer, University of Strathclyde, UK MATTHEW CAMPBELL Professor of English, University of York, UK SUE EDNEY Lecturer in English, Bath Spa University, UK JOHN GOODRIDGE Professor of English, Nottingham Trent University, UK BRIAN HOLLINGWORTH former Head of Literature Studies, Derby University, UK NIGEL LEASK Regius Chair of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow, UK JENNIFER ORR University of Oxford, UK MICHAEL SANDERS Senior Lecturer in 19th Century Writing, University of Manchester, UK MARCUS WAITHE University Lecturer and Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK