Factory Girl - H. Gustav Klaus

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Résumé :
It is at last being recognized that, contrary to common understanding, there were working-class women poets in the nineteenth century. Yet this growing awareness is rarely accompanied by a sustained engagement with their poetry. Painstaking research into the life and work of an author remains constricted to the Brownings and Rossettis of both sexes. The present study breaks with this academic habit. It is the first critical biography of the Glaswegian writer who signed her poems as 'The Factory Girl'. It is an essay in recovery and exploration, situating Ellen Johnston at the intersection of gender, class and nation. It documents her range of subjects, styles and voices. The book is concluded by a selection of Ellen Johnston's verse.

Biographie:
The Author: H. Gustav Klaus is Professor of the Literature of the British Isles at the University of Rostock, Germany. He takes a special interest in the 'little' tradition of working-class writing. His books in that area include The Literature of Labour (1985) and The Rise of Socialist Fiction 1880-1914 (1987). More recently he has published a study of the Irish poet Thomas O'Brien, Strong Words Brave Deeds (1994), and an investigation of crime fiction, The Art of Murder (1998).

Sommaire:
Contents: Feminist criticism and working-class writing - Songs of war and peace - The angry voice - Poems of passion and desire - The Penny Post: audience, community, recognition - Disappearance.