The working-class intellectual in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain / / edited by Aruna Krishnamurthy

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.5/62094109033
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Intellectual life
• Altri autori: KrishnamurthyAruna
• Note generali: First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction / Aruna Krishnamurthy -- 2. 'From threshing Corn, he turns to thresh his Brains' : Stephen Duck as laboring-class intellectual / William J. Christmas -- 3. Protest and performance : Ann Yearsley's Poems on several occasions / Monica Smith Hart -- 4. Hoddin' grey an' A' that : Robert Burns's head, class hybridity, and the value of the ploughman's mantle / Luke R.J. Maynard -- 5. Coffeehouse vs. Alehouse : notes on the making of the eighteenth-century working-class intellectual / Aruna Krishnamurthy -- 6. Genre in the Chartist periodical / Rob Breton -- 7. Shakespeare in the early working-class press / Kathryn Prince -- 8. Radical satire and respectability : comic imagination in Hone, Jerrold, and Dickens -- 9. "The Unaccredited Hero" : Alton Locke, Thomas Carlyle, and the formation of the working-class intellectual / Richard Salmon -- 10. Alexander Somerville's rise from serfdom : working-class self-fashioning through journalism, autobiography, and political economy / Julie F. Codell -- 11. Politeness and intertextuality in Michael Faraday's Artisan essay-circle / Alice Jenkins -- 12. Playing at poverty : the music hall and the staging of the working class / Ian Peddie.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Britain, the period that stretches from the middle of the eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century marks the emergence of the working classes, alongside and in response to the development of the middle-class public sphere. This collection contributes to that scholarship by exploring the figure of the "working-class intellectual," who both assimilates the anti-authoritarian lexicon of the middle classes to create a new political and cultural identity, and revolutionizes it with the subversive energy of class hostility. Through considering a broad range of writings across key moments of working-class self-expression, the essays reevaluate a host of familiar writers such as Robert Burns, John Thelwall, Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, Ann Yearsley, and even Shakespeare, in terms of their role within a working-class constituency. The collection also breaks fresh ground in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholarship by shedding light on a number of unfamiliar and underrepresented figures, such as Alexander Somerville, Michael Faraday, and the singer Ned Corvan.
• Titolo autorizzato: The working-class intellectual in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain
• ISBN: 1-315-23653-2; 1-351-88034-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154687403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II