Contents
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Bibliography
Chapter 2: The Late Middle Ages
Introduction
Literacy, Book Ownership, and the Representation of the ‘Illiterate’ Rebel
Literary Representations of Social Class and Social Inequality
Gentils and Nobles
Poor Gentils and Gentry
Bibliography
Chapter 3: The Early Modern Period
Introduction
Manuscripts and Printed Books
Patronage
The Professional Author
Poetry and the Court
Class, the Caroline Court, and the Civil War
Royalist Poetry
The Interregnum and After
Bibliography
Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century
Introduction
The English Language
Poetry and Bookselling in the Mid to Late Eighteenth Century
Class and Two Cultures
The Plebeian Poet of Genius
Stephen Duck
Ann Yearsley
Robert Dodsley
Bibliography
Chapter 5: The Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Century
Introduction
Robert Bloomfield, William Wordsworth, and the Poor
Poetry, the Public, and the Market
Poetry, Criticism, and Class
Shelley and Radical Politics
Bibliography
Chapter 6: The Mid- to Late Nineteenth Century
Introduction
Chartist Poetry
The Poor Law and Poor Pay
The Second Reform Act144
Bibliography
Chapter 7: The Twentieth Century: To the 1960s
Poetry of the Great War
Modernist Poetry
Auden and the 1930s
After the Second World War: Arts for All?
The Movement
Bibliography
Chapter 8: The Twentieth Century: After the 1960s
Introduction
Scholarship Boy: Education, Family, and Class
Masculinity and Violence
Mothers
Northern Broadsides: Independent Presses, Regionality, and Class
Inside and Out
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
