Addressing the Machine: Victorian Working-Class Poetry and Industrial Machinery

Citation

Blair K (2023) Addressing the Machine: Victorian Working-Class Poetry and Industrial Machinery. Journal of Victorian Culture, 28 (3), pp. 395-409. https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcac064

Abstract
This article explores the representation of machinery by industrial workers in the Victorian period, and argues that their writings have a qualitatively different literary approach to machinery than that found in the work of established Victorian authors. It uses little-known poems by Scottish and Northern working-class writers to investigate how they use language and form to reflect upon the place of machinery in their working lives.

Journal
Journal of Victorian Culture: Volume 28, Issue 3

• Addressing the Machine: Victorian Working-Class Poetry and Industrial Machinery