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POETS OF THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL
NEWSPAPER POETRY IN VICTORIAN SCOTLAND |
| By: |
Kirstie Blair (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1906841284 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781906841287 |
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| Publisher: |
ASSOCIATION FOR SCOTTISH LITERARY STUDIES |
| Pub. date: |
9 November, 2016 |
| Series: |
ASLS Annual Volumes 45 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
The People's Journal was one of the most successful publications in Victorian Scotland. Here are more than one hundred examples of readers' poems, written by tradesmen and women, factory workers, servants, and others. Fascinating and highly entertaining, their concerns and interests often chime with issues still very much current in the modern day. |
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The People's Journal, 'A Penny Saturday paper devoted to the interests of the Working Classes', was one of the most successful and culturally influential publications in Victorian Scotland. From the beginning, the Journal set out to represent ordinary men and women, providing a platform for their opinions and experiences, publishing readers' letters, stories, and especially their poetry. Collected here are more than one hundred examples of these poems - comical, sentimental, political and polemical - on a dizzy variety of subjects, from domestic pleasures and local events to national questions and foreign affairs. These works, written by tradesmen and women, factory workers, servants, and others, are both deeply fascinating and highly entertaining. Their voices are part of a literary heritage that deserves recovery, and their concerns and interests often chime, more than we might expect, with issues still very much current in the modern day. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Association for Scottish Literary Studies |
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Returnable |
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