{"product_id":"9781526125835","title":"Literature and class","description":"Author: Andrew Hadfield\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526125835\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 24 Aug 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 336 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants' Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book argues throughout that class cannot be seen as a modern phenomenon that occurred after the Industrial revolution but that class divisions and relations have always structured societies and that it makes sense to assume a historical continuity. The book explores a number of themes relating to class: class consciousness; class conflict; commercialisation; servitude; rebellion; gender relations; and colonisation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter outlining the history of class relations, five chapters explore the ways in which social class consciously and unconsciously influenced a series of writers: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Behn, Rochester, Defoe, Duck, Richardson, Burney, Blake and Wordsworth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920478322846,"sku":"ING-9781526125835","price":183.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526125835.jpg?v=1782821530","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526125835","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}