Literature and Class

From the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution

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Andrew Hadfield

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Hardback

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This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants' Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. The book argues throughout that class cannot be seen as a modern phenomenon that occurred after the Industrial revolution but that class divisions and relations have always structured societies and that it makes sense to assume a historical continuity. The book explores a number of themes relating to class: class consciousness; class conflict; commercialisation; servitude; rebellion; gender relations; and colonisation. After outlining the history of class relations, five chapters explore the ways in which social class consciously and unconsciously influenced a series of writers: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Behn, Rochester, Defoe, Duck, Richardson, Burney, Blake and Wordsworth.

Author Biography:

Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex -- .

Release date Australia

August 24th, 2021

Author

Andrew Hadfield

Pages

352

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

5 black & white illustrations, 1 table

ISBN-13

9781526125835

Product ID

34322219

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