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Literature of the working world
The other nation
Mariners, renegades, and castaways
On the line
A richer harvest
The Socialist novel in Britain
The British working-class novel in the twentieth century
The lab'ring muses
Better red
Discourse on popular culture
Ghosts of Tom Joad
The rural muse
The genre poissard and the French stage of the eighteenth century
The Catherine Cookson companion
Upton Sinclair's the Jungle
Walt Whitman's concept of the American common man
Narratives of Class in New Irish and Scottish Literature
The old man's place
Youth of Darkest England
Shakespeare's labored art
The Stamp of Class
Dockers and detectives
The Girl from Leam Lane
Vanishing moments
Victorian idyllic fiction
The modern American novel of the left
The servant's hand
The Rise of socialist fiction 1880-1914
Labor & desire
American working-class literature
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