United Islands?: The Languages of Resistance

United Islands?

The Languages of Resistance

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Edited by John Kirk, Andrew Noble, Michael Brown

Publisher:: Pickering & Chatto
Online publication date:: December 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781848933415

Subjects:: Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest

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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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

CONTENTS
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

List of Figures and Tables
pp ix-x

List of Contributors
pp xi-xvi

Introduction: The Languages of Resistance: National Particularities, Universal Aspirations
pp 1-34

1 - Reading the English Political Songs of the 1790s
pp 35-50

2 - Why should the Landlords have the Best Songs? Thomas Spence and the Subversion of Popular Song
pp 51-62

3 - ‘Bard of Liberty’: Iolo Morganwg, Wales and Radical Song
pp 63-76

4 - Canonicity and Radical Evangelicalism: The Case of Thomas Kelly
pp 77-94

5 - Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry: Eighteenth-Century ‘Irish Song’ and the Politics of Remediation
pp 95-108

6 - Homology, Analogy and the Perception of Irish Radicalism
pp 109-124

7 - Lost Manuscripts and Reactionary Rustling: Was there a Radical Scottish Gaelic Poetry between 1770 and 1820?
pp 125-140

8 - Virile Vernaculars: Radical Sexuality as Social Subversion in Irish Chapbook Verse, 1780–1820
pp 141-152

9 - Thomas Moore and the Problem of Colonial Masculinity in Irish Romanticism
pp 153-166

10 - Radical Politics and Dialect in the British Archipelago
pp 167-180

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
pp 181-194

Afterword: The Languages of Resistance
pp 195-206

Notes
pp 207-236

Works Cited
pp 237-254

Index
pp 255-272

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