Table of Contents
Introduction: Laboring-Class Literature and Its Contexts, 1700-1900 Kevin Binfield William J. Christmas 1
Part I Teaching Genres
Teaching the Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Georgic Corey E. Andrews 27
Singing Chambermaids and Walking Gentlemen: Teaching Romantic-Era British Theater David Worrall 34
Nineteenth-Century Broadside Ballads and the Poetics of Everyday Life Ellen L O'Brien 43
Teaching the Aesthetic in Working-Class Fiction Margaret A. Loose 51
Teaching Laboring-Class Autobiographies as Condition-of-England Texts in the Victorian Survey James R. Simmons, Jr. 57
Urban Mysteries, Chartist Novels, and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Popular Narrative Sara Hackenberg 64
Part II Teaching Selected Authors and Works
Rubbing Shoulders with Alary Leapor: Class Curricula as Anthologjzation Moyra Haslett 75
Poem Nascitur, Non Fit: Teaching Ann Yearsley's Life and Works Monica Smith Hart 85
"'Tis Pity a Genius Should Be So Deprest!": Elizabeth Hands's Verse Satire and the Literary Marketplace Scarlet Bowen 93
Teaching Christian Milne Kathryn Meehan Quinto 100
Teaching the Politics and Poetics of Land through William Cobbett's Rural Rides Aruna Krishnamurthy 107
Teaching James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Fiona Wilson 117
John Clare's "Rich Disorder" Timothy Ziegenhagen 126
Teaching Chartist Poetry Mike Sanders 134
Part III Pedagogical Strategies
Teaching Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Poetry Using a Labor Studies Approach Anne Milne 143
The Laboring-Class Atlantic Bridget M. Keegan 150
Using Romantic-Era Laboring-Class Poets to Explore Cultural Archaeology Stephen C. Behrendt 159
Thomas Holcroft and Literary Ventriloquism Miriam L. Wallace 168
Teaching the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic War Era through Sailor Memoir Emily M. Brewer 177
Teaching the Theme of Leisure Theresa Adams 186
Wandering in Fact and Fiction: Wordsworth's Wanderer and Christopher Thomson Cassandra Falke 194
Poetry of the People? Working-Class Poetry and Victorian Periodicals Alexis Easley 202
Teaching Chartist Fiction with Canonical Texts: Pairing Thomas Wheeler's Sunshine and Shadow with Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton Stacey Floyd 211
Teaching Laboring-Class Writers as Victorian Meagan Timney 219
Life Study in and beyond Mary Peach Collier's Poetic Effusions Kevin Binfield 227
Part IV Types of Courses
"The Poet's Rapture, and the Peasant's Care": A Service-Learning Course on Eighteenth-Century British Laboring-Class Verse Steven Epley 239
"All Bedlam, or Parnassus, Is Let Out": Teaching Laboring-Class Poets in the Eighteenth-Century Survey Course William J. Christmas 246
The Working Lives of Eighteenth - Century Authors of African Descent Vincent Carretta 255
"That Agricultural Poetry Class": Teaching Rural Laboring-Class Poets, 1750-1850 Misty Beck 265
Writing Rural: Agrarian and Georgic Transformations in Smith, Wordsworth, Bloomfield, and Clare Gary Harrison 274
Teaching the Poetry of Victorian Working-Class Women Florence S. Boos 282
Part V Resources
General Resources 295
Annotations for Two Major Databases 297
Supplementary Resources for Some Essays in This Volume 301
Paintings 313
Recordings and Sheet Music 313
Notes on Contributors 315
Works Cited 319
Index 341
