The Working-class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Britain

The Working-class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Britain
Author: Aruna Krishnamurthy
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780754665045

This collection of essays contributes to scholarship on the emergence of the working classes, by filtering the formation of working-class identity through the rise of the working-class intellectual, a unique cultural figure at the crossroads of two disparate worlds. The essays cover a range of familiar and unfamiliar figures from the 1730s to the 1850s, shedding light on key moments of working-class self-expression.