Overview

This innovative work is established as the substantive exploration of the literary endeavours of working people and socialists over 200 years.H. Gustav Klaus challenges the complacent assumptions about working class and socialist literature as merely a ""symptom"", arguing that the literature of labour is an integral part of the historical development of the working class and deserves much closer attention.This work breaks away from the 'Great Tradition' and in revealing the rich source of creativity within the literature of labour, introduces an alternative tradition of English literature.

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"""This book is a fine example of sustained, extending and always thoughtful research."" - Raymond Williams, New Society. ""Klaus's commentary is alert to distinction among plebeian, working-class and 'socialist' literature."" - D.D. Murdoch, Choice."

This book is a fine example of sustained, extending and always thoughtful research. - Raymond Williams, New Society. Klaus's commentary is alert to distinction among plebeian, working-class and 'socialist' literature. - D.D. Murdoch, Choice.

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H. Gustav Klaus is Professor of the Literature of the British Isles, Universitat Rostock, Germany. He has held visiting posts as visiting Professor, University of Queensland; Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh and visiting Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His several publications include: The Rise of socialist fiction, 1880-1914 (1987), Factory Girl (1998) and (as co-editor) British Industrial Fiction (2000), James Kelman (2004), To hell with culture: anarchism and twentieth-century British literature (2005).

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