Teaching Laboring-Class British Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
December 2018
Abstract
Behind our contemporary experience of globalization, precarity, and consumerism lies a history of colonization, increasing literacy, transnational trade in goods and labor, and industrialization. Teaching British laboring-class literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries means exploring ideas of class, status, and labor in relation to the historical developments that inform our lives as workers and members of society. This volume demonstrates pedagogical techniques and provides resources for students and teachers on autobiographies, broadside ballads, Chartism and other political movements, georgics, labor studies, satire, service learning, writing by laboring-class women, and writing by laboring people of African descent.
Recommended Citation
Binfield, Kevin and Christmas, William, "Teaching Laboring-Class British Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (2018). Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity. 272.
https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/faculty/272