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Book SynopsisChapter 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.
