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Working Verse in Victorian Scotland

By Kirstie Blair

Working Verse in Victorian Scotland Poetry

Working Verse in Victorian Scotland

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This volume reassesses working-class poetry and poetics in Victorian Britain, using Scotland as a focus and with particular attention to the role of the popular press in fostering and disseminating working-class verse cultures. It studies a very wide variety of writers who are unknown to scholarship, and assesses the political, social, and cultural work which their poetry performed. During the Victorian period, Scotland underwent unprecedented changes in terms of industrialization, the rise of the city, migration, and emigration. This study shows how poets who defined themselves as part of a specifically Scottish tradition responded to these changes. It substantially revises our understanding of Scottish literature in this period, while contributing to wider investigations of the role of popular verse in national and international cultures.
Product details
Number of Pages:
244
Release Date:
2019-08-19
Publication Date:
2019-08-19
Publisher:
OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198843798
ISBN13:
9780198843795
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
534 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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