The Poets of the People's Journal : Newspaper Poetry in Victorian Scotland
- Submitting institution
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University of Strathclyde
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 62831180
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Association for Scottish Literary Studies
- ISBN
- 9781906841287
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This anthology is based on original archival research into nineteenth-century Scottish literature and the newspaper press funded by a Curran Research Fellowship from the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. It is designed as an intervention in Scottish literary studies and in Victorian periodical and poetry studies. As the first anthology of newspaper verse, it highlights its significance for Victorian studies, particularly in showing the importance of anonymous and pseudonymous newspaper poems. It also contributes to new understandings of the vitality of the Scots language in Victorian popular literature. 29 of the identifiable authors, of whom 27 are working-class authors, were previously unknown to scholarship. In addition to the work of recovery and selection, Blair has contributed a substantial 7000 word introduction and headnotes to each poem. Totalling approximately 12-15,000 words, these headnotes draw on archival research into the lives of the poem’s authors, as well as providing historical and literary context for each poem’s content, form and language.
The anthology was shortlisted for the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Colby Prize and its findings discussed in the Scottish Sunday Times, Daily Mail, TLS, and Dundee press.
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- Non-English
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