Literature and Class: From the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526125835)

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: Andrew Hadfield
ISBN-10: 1526125838
ISBN-13: 9781526125835
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/24/2021
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d