Churchyard poetics : landscape, labour, and the legacy of genre /

The churchyard is a familiar but little-understood literary landscape in eighteenth-century scholarship. This book recovers work by women and labouring-class poets to argue that the churchyard was an important and revealing site in the cultural imaginary as this period negotiated the transition to c...

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Main Author: Metcalf, James (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The churchyard is a familiar but little-understood literary landscape in eighteenth-century scholarship. This book recovers work by women and labouring-class poets to argue that the churchyard was an important and revealing site in the cultural imaginary as this period negotiated the transition to capitalism.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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