Transnational Working-Class Literatures

Wiktor Marzec is Assistant Professor at the Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. His publications include, Rising Subjects: The 1905 Revolution and the Origins of Modern Polish Politics (2020) and the co-authored From Cotton and Smoke. Łódź – Industrial City and Discourses of Asynchronous Modernity, 1897–1994 (2019). Magnus Nilsson is Professor of Comparative Literature at Malmö University, Sweden. Working-class literature is his main area of expertise. His publications include Literature and Class: Aesthetical-Political Strategies in Modern Swedish Working-Class Literature (2014) and Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives (two volumes, edited with John Lennon, 2017 and 2020).Mike Sanders is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester, UK. Chartist literature and culture is his main area of expertise. His publications include, The Poetry of Chartism: Aesthetics, Politics, History (2009) and the co-edited collection, Subaltern Medievalisms: Medievalism ‘from below’ in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2021).

• Chapter 1: Towards the Transnational Study of Working-Class Literature.- Chapter 2: The Early German Socialist Novel: Johann-Baptist von Schweitzer’s Lucinde and August Otto Walster’s Am Webstuhl der Zeit.- Chapter 3: A Century of Criticism: Canon Formation and the English Working-Class Movement from the 1830s – 1930s.- Chapter 4: The Erasure of Class from Working-Class Fiction in the Modern Greek Literary Canon (1922-1989).- Chapter 5: The Construction of The Worker in Brazilian Poetry: Between Canonical Lyric and Popular Song.- Chapter 6: Romanian Working-Class Literature between critical realism and socialist realism.- Chapter 7: Proletarian Literature and the Problem of the Communalisation of Culture in Interwar Poland.- Chapter 8: People's Literature and the National Canon in Post-War Polish Literary Criticism.- Minds among the Spindles and Chevilles:  Identity, Genre, and Literary Representation among New England "Mill Girls" and Lyonnaise Canuses.- Chapter 10: Global Texts as Local Weapons: Towards the Transnational Network of Proletarian Imagination in Early Twentieth-Century Finland.- Chapter 11: Links Richten (1932-1933): Dutch contribution to transnational proletarian literature.- Chapter 12: Patrícia Galvão: Militant for a Cause.- Chapter 13: The international dimension of Henry Poulaille’s “Proletarian literature”.- Chapter 14: Italian Working-Class Literature’s Publishing Landscape, from “Il menabò” to Alegre.- Chapter 15: Ordinary People and Literary Pirouettes: Working-Class Literature in the Swedish Municipal Workers’ Trade-Union Magazine Until 1970.- Chapter 16: In the Shadow of the 20th Century: Working-Class Literature in China and the Worker Poetry Journal.