The Industrial Muse : A Study of Nineteenth Century British Working-Class Literature (Hardcover)

Plates Preface Introduction 1. Street Ballads and Broadsides: The Foundation of a Class Culture 2. Literature as Propaganda: The Coal Miners’ Unions, 1825-1845 3. Chartist Poetry and Fiction: The Development of a Class-Based Literature 4. Literature as a Vocation: The Self-Educated Poets 5. An Appropriate Voice: Dialect Literature of the Industrial North 6. The Music Hall: From a Class to a Mass Entertainment Appendix Bibliography Index