Five Million Poems, or the Local Press as Poetry Publisher, 1800–1900

Hobbs, Andrew

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“…As distinct from the talk delivered as the Warton Lecture, I have chosen to focus the second half of this essay in-depth on two individuals discussed in that talk, rather than moving between a larger number of examples but with brief attention to each. My arguments throughout rest on the foundational scholarship on working-class poetic cultures produced by Martha Vicinus (1974), Brian Maidment (1987), Florence Boos (2008), Michael Sanders (2009) (co-investigator on this project), Andrew Hobbs (2012Hobbs ( , 2019, and others, and on the recent findings of related projects, such as Simon Rennie's 'The Poetry of the Cotton Famine'. 1 As these scholars have demonstrated, and as I argue myself elsewhere, working-class poets in Scotland and the North of England wrote poetry for many reasons.…”

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The piston and the pen: poetry and the Victorian industrial worker

Blair¹

2019

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This article discusses some preliminary findings from the collaborative AHRC-funded research project 'Piston, Pen & Press: Literary Cultures in the Industrial Workplace'. It uses examples of Scottish poets, and detailed study of two writers who were factory workers from the Bradford and Keighley area in Yorkshire, to argue that Victorian industrial workers were highly engaged with cultures of poetic production and deployed verse for a variety of political, social, and personal ends.

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The piston and the pen: poetry and the Victorian industrial worker

Blair¹

2019

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Mussell

2015

The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature

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Newspapers were one of the principal venues for the publication of literature in the period. For writers, this meant that the newspaper press was an important source of publicity and income; for readers, it meant that literature was read in daily or weekly parts alongside the newspaper's other contents. However, newspapers were also one of the most common kinds of printed object in the period, with readers at all levels of Victorian society. The newspaper helped its readers make sense of the world around them, circulating a range of representations that writers could draw upon in their works. The newspaper was both a source of inspiration, offering textual representations that could find their way into literature, and an important part of the world that literary works described.

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The Nineteenth Century

Easley¹

2019

The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship

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Five Million Poems, or the Local Press as Poetry Publisher, 1800–1900

Cited by 14 publications

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The piston and the pen: poetry and the Victorian industrial worker

The piston and the pen: poetry and the Victorian industrial worker

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The Nineteenth Century

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