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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: OUP Oxford

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9780198843795

RRP: £60.00

PAGES: 256

PUBLICATION DATE:
June 27, 2019

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Working Verse in Victorian Scotland: Poetry, Press, Community

Kirstie Blair

This volume 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. It studies a very wide variety of writers who are unknown to scholarship, and assesses the political, social, and cultural work which their poetry performed.

During the Victorian period, Scotland underwent unprecedented changes in terms of industrialization, the rise of the city, migration, and emigration. This study shows how poets who defined themselves as part of a specifically Scottish tradition responded to these changes. It substantially revises our understanding of Scottish literature in this period, while contributing to wider investigations of the role of popular verse in national and international cultures.

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