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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785722603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Pickering & Chatto, , 2012

ISBN

1-315-65498-9

1-317-32070-0

1-317-32071-9

1-283-85038-9

1-84893-341-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Poetry and song in the age of revolution ; ; no. 1

Disciplina

820.9358

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

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

In the aftermath of the American and French Revolutions, the 1790s brought a huge outpouring of poetry and song in support of radicalism in Great Britain and Ireland. The essays in this volume deal with radical



poetry in Ireland, Highland and Lowland Scotland, and Wales, as well as in the regions of England and London, placing the 1790s in a broader historical and cultural context. Much of the material drawn on is non-canonical, unstudied, and in one of the Celtic languages or in Scots or dialect English. The contributors are able to show that reactionary political verse is a pan-British phenomenon, and that the writing of this period has fundamental implications for the history of Britain. They show how poetry and song can reveal the relations between the four nations at this time, particularly that between England with the other three.