Salmon, R orcid.org/0000-0002-6283-9851 (2018) The Literature of Labour: Collective Biography and Working-Class Authorship, 1830–1859. In: Waithe, M and White, C, (eds.) The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910: Authorial Work Ethics. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture . Palgrave Macmillan , London, UK , pp. 43-59. ISBN 9781137552525
Abstract
This chapter examines the role of collective biography, a genre comprising brief didactic and inspirational sketches, in the narrative construction of working-class authorship during the mid-nineteenth century. In the three decades separating G. L. Craik’s The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties (1830) from Samuel Smiles’s Self-Help (1859), collective biographies of writers (chiefly poets) affiliated to the ‘labouring class’ flourished. Focusing especially on the work of Edwin Paxton Hood (1820–85), whose books include The Literature of Labour and Genius and Industry, the chapter assesses the ways in which these biographical compendia challenge prevailing assumptions about the division between manual and mental work, yielding new insights into the labour of literature.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2018. This is an author produced version of a book chapter published in The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Authorship; Collective biography; Genius; Knowledge; Labouring class; Poetry; Self-help; Work |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2017 16:56 |
Last Modified: | 21 Apr 2021 12:00 |
Published Version: | http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137552525 |
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Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Series Name: | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
Identification Number: | 10.1057/978-1-137-55253-2_3 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:125328 |