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John Clare, Politics and Poetry

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  • © 2003

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  1. Alan D. Vardy
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Alan D. Vardy
    Pages 1-11

  3. Clare’s ‘Minorness’

    • Alan D. Vardy
    Pages 12-34

  4. Viewing and Reviewing

    • Alan D. Vardy
    Pages 35-55

  5. ‘Grammer in learning is like Tyranny in government’

    • Alan D. Vardy
    Pages 56-70

  6. The Cottager’s Friend

    • Alan D. Vardy
    Pages 71-93

  7. ‘Medlars’

    • Alan D. Vardy
    Pages 94-111

  8. The Marketplace

    • Alan D. Vardy
    Pages 112-134

  9. The Natural Histories of Helpstone

    • Alan D. Vardy
    Pages 135-166

  10. Clare, Cobbett and ‘Captain Swing’

    • Alan D. Vardy
    Pages 167-187

  11. Epilogue: Clare’s Agency

    • Alan D. Vardy
    Pages 188-190

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 191-221
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About this book

John Clare, Politics and Poetry challenges the traditional portrait of 'poor John Clare', the helpless victim of personal and professional circumstance. Clare's career has been presented as a disaster of editorial heavy-handedness, condescension, a poor market, and conservative patronage. Yet Clare was not a passive victim. This study explores the sources of the 'poor Clare' tradition, and recovers Clare's agency, revealing a writer fully engaged in his own professional life and in the social and political questions of the day.

About the author

ALAN D. VARDY is an Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College of the City University of New York, and previously held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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