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

This book explores the contribution made by Chartist poetry to the struggle for fundamental democratic rights.

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

Behind our contemporary experience of globalization, precarity, and consumerism lies a history of colonization, increasing literacy, transnational trade in good

Over 100 poets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were hugely popular and important in their day but few a