BRITISH LABOURING-CLASS NATURE POETRY, 1730-1837 by Bridget Keegan ( 9780230583900 )

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BRITISH LABOURING-CLASS NATURE POETRY, 1730-1837

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ISBN 10:

0230583903

ISBN 13:

9780230583900

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

29 May, 2008

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

Nearly 1400 poets from labouring-class origins wrote and published in Great Britain between 1700 and 1900, yet much of their work has yet to be properly examined. This study focuses upon how these writers represented nature in their poetry and how they adapted and transformed the poetic genres available to them. Looking in turn at their treatment of different ecosystems, including farms, gardens, hills, rivers, seas and wetlands, the book argues that writing about the environment allowed labouring-class poets to explore important social and aesthetic questions. The book examines the works of numerous poets from Stephen Duck, William Falconer and Ann Yearsley in the eighteenth-century to Robert Bloomfield and John Clare in the nineteenth-century. The book expands the canon of British poetry and broadens the scope of environmental literary criticism by exploring the question of how an author's class background affects his or her engagements with the natural world.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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