Teaching Laboring-Class British Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries [Minkštas viršelis]

Offers pedagogical techniques and syllabus suggestions for teaching British laboring-class literature, 1700-1900 in the college classroom. Topics include georgic, theater, popular narrative, satire, chartist poetry, labor studies, cultural archaeology, sailor memoirs, periodicals, authors of African descent, working-class women, urban mysteries, broadside ballads, autobiographies, and service learning.

Behind our contemporary experience of globalization, precarity, and consumerism lies a history of colonization, increasing literacy, transnational trade in goods and labor, and industrialization. Teaching British laboring-class literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries means exploring ideas of class, status, and labor in relation to the historical developments that inform our lives as workers and members of society. This volume demonstrates pedagogical techniques and provides resources for students and teachers on autobiographies, broadside ballads, Chartism and other political movements, georgics, labor studies, satire, service learning, writing by laboring-class women, and writing by laboring people of African descent.