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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462331003321

Titolo

United islands? : the languages of resistance / / edited by John Kirk, Andrew Noble and Michael Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; Brookfield, Vermont : , : Pickering & Chatto Publishers, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-317-32070-0

1-317-32071-9

1-283-85038-9

1-84893-341-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution ; ; Number 1

Disciplina

821.6099415

Soggetti

Protest literature, English - History and criticism

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. Reading the English Political Songs of the 1790s; 2. Why Should the Landlords Have the Best Songs; 3. 'Bard of Liberty'; 4. Canonicity and Radical Evangelicalism; 5. Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry; 6. Homology, Analogy and the Perception of Irish Radicalism; 7. Lost Manuscripts and Reactionary Rustling; 8. Virile Vernaculars; 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 Th in a Grunt'Afterword; Notes; Works Cited; Untitled

Sommario/riassunto

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.