United Islands? The Languages of Resistance
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2012
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-84893-340-8 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first title in a new series called Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution. This series will appeal to those involved in English literary studies, as well as those working in fields of study that cover Enlightenment, Romanticism and Revolution in the last quarter of the eighteenth century.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
602 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84893-340-8 (9781848933408)
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Person
Michael Brown is Senior Lecturer in Irish and Scottish History at the University of Aberdeen and Acting Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. John Kirk is Senior Lecturer in English and Scottish Language at Queen's University Belfast. Andrew Noble is a graduate of Aberdeen and Sussex Universities. He was also a Junior Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Content
Introduction: The Languages of Resistance: National Particularities, Universal Aspirations 1 Reading the English Political Songs of the 1790s 2 Why should the Landlords have the Best Songs? Thomas Spence and the Subversion of Popular Song 3 'Bard of Liberty': Iolo Morganwg, Wales and Radical Song4 Canonicity and Radical Evangelicalism: Th e Case of Thomas Kelly 5 Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry: Eighteenth-Century 'Irish Song' and the Politics of Remediation 6 Homology, Analogy and the Perception of Irish Radicalism 7 Lost Manuscripts and Reactionary Rustling: Was there a Radical Scottish Gaelic Poetry between 1770 and 1820? 8 Virile Vernaculars: Radical Sexuality as Social Subversion in Irish Chapbook Verse, 1780-1820 9 Thomas Moore and the Problem of Colonial Masculinity in Irish Romanticism 10 Radical Politics and Dialect in the British Archipelago 11 'Theaw Kon Ekspect No Mooar Eawt ov a Pig thin a Grunt': Searching for the Radical Dialect Voice in Industrial Lancashire and the West Riding, 1798-1819 Afterword: Th e Languages of Resistance