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British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837
Bridget Keegan
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Description for British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349358717
SKU
V9781349358717
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99-15
About Bridget 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.
Reviews for British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837
'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. ... Read more