Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, the Famous Threshing Poet

Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, the Famous Threshing Poet
ISBN-10
019885966X
ISBN-13
9780198859666
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2020-06-04
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Jennifer Batt

Description

This book explores the complex and contested relationships that existed between class, patronage, and poetry in Hanoverian England by examining the life and work of Stephen Duck, the 'famous threshing poet'. Duck's remarkable story reveals the tolerances, and intolerances, of the Hanoverian social order.

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