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This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political ends—and for their largely working-cl

Chartist poetry was written by and for workers. In contrast with the portrayal of workers by mainstream Victorian writers, Chartist verse is intellectual, compl

Noting that working-class writers and editors actively sought to define for themselves the spiritual and political role literature played for an emerging workin

William Wordsworth's poems are inhabited by beggars, vagrants, peddlers, and paupers. This book analyzes how a few key poems from Wordsworth's early years const