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

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart is a significant and timely study of nineteenth-century poetry and poetics. It considers why and how the heart bec

It is at last being recognized that, contrary to common understanding, there were working-class women poets in the nineteenth century. Yet this growing awarenes

It is at last being recognized that, contrary to common understanding, there were working-class women poets in the nineteenth century. Yet this growing awarenes

William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor