Class, Culture, and Belief: The Contexts of Charles Heavysege’s Christian Poetry

January 29, 2015

By Heather Jones
Abstract:

Charles Heavysege's poetry reveals that he looked at both life and literature through the typological lens of Christian history. As an urban, working-class skilled tradesman with an evangelical upbringing and education, Heavysege sought an identity through his writing that would allow him to justify his ambition to be a recognized, respected, and financially successful poet without forfeiting piety and its reward: salvation.

Biography Canadian Studies Cultural Studies Literary Criticism Nineteenth Century Poetry Religion Working Class
This article “Class, Culture, and Belief: The Contexts of Charles Heavysege’s Christian Poetry” originally appeared in New Work on Early Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 213 (Summer 2012): 141-155.

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