The Politics of Songs in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1723–1795
The Politics of Songs in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1723–1795

Author: Kate Horgan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1317318005

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Horgan analyses the importance of songs in British eighteenth-century culture with specific reference to their political meaning. Using an interdisciplinary methodology, combining the perspectives of literary studies and cultural history, the utilitarian power of songs emerges across four major case studies.

Ireland and French Enlightenment, 1700-1800
Ireland and French Enlightenment, 1700-1800

Author: G. Gargett

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-02-08

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0230510159

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By what channels did the French Enlightenment reach the eighteenth-century Irish reader, and what impact did it have? What were the images of Ireland current in the France of the philosophers like Voltaire? These are the questions which a team of scholars attempt to answer in this volume.