Description: The churchyard is a familiar but little--understood literary landscape in eighteenth--century scholarship. This book recovers work by women and labouring--class poets to argue that the churchyard was an important and revealing site in the cultural imaginary as this period negotiated the transition to capitalism.
Review Quotes: "The book is both well informed and informative, and acknowledges its debts to previous scholars of landscape poetry, such as Raymond Williams and John Burrow. It will be of undoubted value to all students and teachers of eighteen-century literature." -- Min Wild, The Times Literary Supplement