The Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction, Aruna Krishnamurthy; 'From threshing corn, he turns to thresh his brains': Stephen Duck as laboring-class intellectual, William J. Christmas; Protest and performance: Ann Yearsley's Poems on Several Occasions, Monica Smith Hart; 'Hoddin' grey an' a' that': Robert Burns's head, class hybridity and the value of the ploughman's mantle, Luke R.J. Maynard; Coffee-house vs. ale-house: notes on the making of the 18th-century working-class intellectual, Aruna Krishnamurthy; Genre in the Chartist periodical, Rob Breton; Shakespeare in the early working-class press, Kathryn Prince; Radical satire and respectability: comic imagination in Hone, Jerrold and Dickens, Sambudha Sen; 'The unaccredited hero': Alton Lock, Thomas Carlyle, and the formation of the working-class intellectual, Richard Salmon; Alexander Somerville's rise from serfdom: working-class self-fashioning through journalism, autobiography and political economy, Julie F. Codell; Politeness and intertextuality in Michael Faraday's artisan essay-circle, Alice Jenkins; Playing at poverty: the music hall and the staging of the working class, Ian Peddie; Index.