The Lab'Ring Muses: Work, Writing, and the Social Order in English Plebeian Poetry, 1730-1830,9780874137477

The Lab'Ring Muses: Work, Writing, and the Social Order in English Plebeian Poetry, 1730-1830

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ISBN13: 9780874137477
ISBN10: 0874137470
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-09-01
Publisher(s): Associated Univ Pr
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Author Biography

William J. Christmas is currently Assistant Professor of English at San Francisco State University, where he teaches courses in eighteenth-century British literature and culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9(4)
Abbreviations 13(2)
Note on the Text 15(2)
Introduction 17(22)
Terminology and Methodology
39(24)
Stephen Duck and Plebeian Poetry in the 1730s
63(67)
Work Writing Before Duck
66(7)
The Discovery, Publicity, and Commodification of Stephen Duck
73(22)
The Flight Up Parnassus: Bancks, Dodsley, and Tatersal
95(20)
The Buzzing of Mary Collier's Bees: Resistance and Assimilation in The Woman's Labour
115(15)
``A Muse unknown'': The Career of Henry Jones
130(27)
Writing as Work in Mid- to Late-Century Plebeian Poetry
157(78)
A Rural Maid's Posthumous Success
161(22)
James Woodhouse: ``Unpension'd Poet-Laureat, of the Poor''
183(27)
Brimble, Bennet, Lucas, and Bryant: Writing for Alms
210(18)
Elizabeth Hands Answers the Polite Critics
228(7)
Class Dialogue: Ann Yearsley, Hannah More, and the Power of Print
235(32)
Epilogue: Ensconced in the ``muses seat'': Bloomfield, Clare, and the Plebeian Tradition 267(30)
Appendix 1: Henry Jones Bibliography 297(5)
Notes 302(35)
Bibliography 337(16)
Index 353

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