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Author: John Kirk
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1317320719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: John Kirk
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1317320700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: John Kirk
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Publishers
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781848933415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: John Kirk
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1317320646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays addresses the role of literature in radical politics. Topics covered include the legacy of Robert Burns, broadside literature in Munster and radical literature in Wales.
Author: Franca Dellarosa
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2014-10-31
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1781387486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study sheds light on a major and until now little studied Liverpool writer, Edward Rushton (1782-1814), whose politics and poetics were imbued in the most pressing events and debates shaking the world during the Age of Revolution.
Author: John M. Kirk
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9401209901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe skillful use of the Scots language has long been a distinguishing feature of the literatures of Scotland. The essays in this volume make a major contribution to our understanding of the Scots language, past and present, and its written dissemination in poetry, fiction and drama, and in non-literary texts, such as personal letters. They cover aspects of the development of a national literature in the Scots language, and they also give due weight to its international dimension by focusing on translations into Scots from languages as diverse as Greek, Latin and Chinese, and by considering the spread of written Scots to Northern Ireland, the United States of America and Australia. Many of the essays respond to and extend the scholarship of J. Derrick McClure, whose considerable impact on Scottish literary and linguistic studies is surveyed and assessed in this volume.
Author: Kate Horgan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1317318005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHorgan 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.
Author: Elizabeth Edwards
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2013-02-15
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0708326935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the period following the French revolution in 1789, Welsh poets continually reflected on the extraordinary new era in which they lived through their writing. Effortlessly ranging from Wales’s deep and distant history to accounts of the most topical and urgent current affairs, their poems on war, Welshness, druids, parted lovers and sublime landscapes encompass the beautiful, the brutal and the mysterious. Facing a future that often seemed agonisingly uncertain, poets in Wales used their verses to voice their thoughts and feelings about events that had rocked the whole of Europe, and whose effects continued to be felt long after 1789. This new selection of poetry from Wales sets recently-discovered manuscript texts alongside little-known early printed poems, offering a full and accessible introduction to Welsh poetry in English in the period 1780-1820.
Author: J. Thompson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-03-12
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 1137344830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on newly-discovered manuscripts, this collection is the first modern edition of poetry by John Thelwall, the famed radical Romantic and champion of the working class. Eight key essays and 125 fully-annotated poems introduce his work in correspondence with historical traditions and current critical paradigms.
Author: Oskar Cox Jensen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-02-18
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1108903665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor three centuries, ballad-singers thrived at the heart of life in London. One of history's great paradoxes, they were routinely disparaged and persecuted, living on the margins, yet playing a central part in the social, cultural, and political life of the nation. This history spans the Georgian heyday and Victorian decline of those who sang in the city streets in order to sell printed songs. Focusing on the people who plied this musical trade, Oskar Cox Jensen interrogates their craft and their repertoire, the challenges they faced and the great changes in which they were caught up. From orphans to veterans, prostitutes to preachers, ballad-singers sang of love and loss, the soil and the sea, mediating the events of the day to an audience of hundreds of thousands. Complemented by sixty-two recorded songs, this study demonstrates how ballad-singers are figures of central importance in the cultural, social, and political processes of continuity, contestation, and change across the nineteenth-century world.
