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British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837 B. Keegan

British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837 By B. Keegan

British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837 by B. Keegan

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This study shows how poets worked within and against the available forms of nature writing to challenge their place within physical, political, and cultural landscapes. Looking at the treatment of different ecosystems, it argues that writing about the environment allowed labouring-class poets to explore important social and aesthetic questions.

British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837 Summary

British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837 by B. Keegan

This study shows how poets worked within and against the available forms of nature writing to challenge their place within physical, political, and cultural landscapes. Looking at the treatment of different ecosystems, it argues that writing about the environment allowed labouring-class poets to explore important social and aesthetic questions.

British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837 Reviews

'Bridget Keegan's book is a work of meticulous scholarship and will be welcomed as a substantial contribution to the postmodern reassessment of the English literature canon that is going on in the academic world; but it also has things to reveal to the non-academic reader who holds that the realm of poetry is a classless republic.'

- M.M. Mahood, John Clare Society Journal

'Her [Keegan] survey as a whole appears to be both well-informed and well-balanced. Students and lovers of English poetry will read it with profit and pleasure.' - Thomas Kullmann

About B. Keegan

BRIDGET KEEGAN is Professor of English at Creighton University, USA. She is the editor of volume two of Eighteenth-Century Labouring-Class Poets and (with James C. McKusick) of Literature and Nature. With Simon White and John Goodridge, she co-edited Robert Bloomfield: Lyric, Class and the Romantic Canon. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on labouring-class writers.

Table of Contents

Table of contents Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction: 'A weed in nature's poesy': British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837 'The Fields his Study': Robert Bloomfield's Poetics of Sustainability Return to the Garden: James Woodhouse and Polite Cultivations Heavenly Prospects: Views from Clifton and Cliffden Writing against the Current: Anne Wilson's Teisa and Labouring-Class River Poetry 'What terms of Art can Nature's pow'rs express?': William Falconer and Labouring-Class Poetry at Sea 'And all is nakedness and fen': John Clare's Wetlands Conclusion: The Politics and Poetics of Wood: Labouring-Class Poetry in the Victorian Era Notes Index

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NPB9780230536968
9780230536968
0230536964
British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837 by B. Keegan
B. Keegan
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2008-05-29
220
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