This monograph reassesses working-class poetry and poetics in Victorian Britain, using Scotland as a focus and with particular attention to the role of the popular press in fostering and disseminating working-class verse cultures. Cover -- Working...
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This monograph reassesses working-class poetry and poetics in Victorian Britain, using Scotland as a focus and with particular attention to the role of the popular press in fostering and disseminating working-class verse cultures. Cover -- Working Verse in Victorian Scotland: Poetry, Press, Community -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- NOTE ON REFERENCES -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: The Work of Verse -- STREET, STAGE, SOCIETY: THE PLACE OF OCCASIONAL VERSE -- SHAPING COMMUNITIES: NEWSPAPER POETRY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE LOCAL POET -- 2: Reforming the Social Circle: Nursery Verse, Poetic Community, and the Politics of Whistle-Binkie -- WHISTLE-BINKIE, REFORM POLITICS, AND THE RISE OF VICTORIAN CULTURE -- POETIC FRATERNITIES -- NURSERY VERSE AND THE WORKING-CLASS FAMILY -- 3: Stands Scotland Where It Did?: Nostalgia, Improvement, and the Uses of the Land -- ACTIVIST POETICS AND THE RIGHTS OF WAY DEBATE -- IMPROVING THE LAND -- LAND, LIBERTY, AND EMIGRANT POETICS -- 4: The Measure of Industry -- SINGING THE IRON TOWNS -- DARK SCENES OF LABOUR: THE LANARKSHIRE MINER POETS -- MAN AND THE ENGINE: BEATING INDUSTRY -- 5: Humour, Satire, and the Rise of the Bad Poet -- 'VERDICT, RUBBISH': CORRESPONDENCE COLUMNS AND THE MAKING OF THE BAD POET -- POUTERY IN THE PRESS -- LOCATING MCGONAGALL -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- NEWSPAPERS PRIMARILY CONSULTED -- MANUSCRIPT SOURCES AND EPHEMERA -- PRIMARY -- SECONDARY -- Index.
