Introduction to Working Class Literature
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🗓️ 2 September 2019
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, we just wanted to take a moment for a quick announcement. One of the working class |
| 0:03.5 | history team has started a new sister project, working class literature, taking a radical |
| 0:07.8 | look of fiction and culture. As part of it, it's going to be an occasional podcast, which is |
| 0:12.5 | available on our website at workingclasshistory.com and at soundcloud.com slash working class |
| 0:19.0 | literature. It should soon be available on most podcast apps. |
| 0:22.9 | It's got an independent Patreon where supporters can get early access to podcast episodes, |
| 0:27.4 | bonus episodes and more. Working class history patron supporters contributing $10 a month or more |
| 0:32.9 | will also enjoy these early and exclusive episodes. So without further ado, |
| 1:12.3 | here's a brief introduction to the Working Class literature podcast. If you're interested in the cultural side of people's history, do go and subscribe today. Take away all that the working class is given to English literature, and that literature would scarcely suffer. |
| 1:14.3 | So said Virginia Woolf in her 1940 presentation to the Workers' Educational Association, titled |
| 1:20.0 | The Leaning Tower. |
| 1:22.0 | Yet while her wider point about the exclusion of working class voices from literature is |
| 1:25.9 | correct, her statement is |
| 1:27.5 | nonetheless partially complicit in the very problem she's pointing out, specifically in |
| 1:32.4 | that what the working class has given to English literature has been taken away and that literature |
| 1:37.0 | has suffered as a result. By Wolfe's time, literature had already seen the works of Stephen Duck, |
| 1:42.8 | the 18th century Thresher poet, |
| 1:44.7 | various chartist poets and novelists like Thomas Cooper and Thomas Martin Wheeler, |
| 1:49.3 | as well as writers like Robert Tressel, Ethel Carney-Holdsworth, and those around the proletarian |
| 1:53.8 | literature movement of the 1930s. Add to this the history of working class writing from outside |
| 1:59.6 | the UK, or that written since Wolf presented her paper, as well as the various history of working class writing from outside the UK, or that written since |
| 2:01.2 | Wolf presented her paper, as well as the various movements of working people which have |
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