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Author Kirk, John, author

Title United islands? : the languages of resistance / edited by John Kirk, Andrew Noble and Michael Brown
Published London : Routledge, 2015

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Series Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution
Poetry and song in the age of revolution.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Introduction The Languages of Resistance: National Particularities, Universal Aspirations; 1 Reading The English Political Songs of the 1790s; 2 Why Should the Landlords Have the Best Songs? Thomas Spence and the Subversion of Popular Song; 3 'Bard of Liberty': Iolo Morganwg, Wales and Radical Song; 4 Canonicity and Radical Evangelicalism: The Case of Thomas Kelly
5 Charlotte Brooke's Reliques of Irish Poetry: Eighteenth-Century 'Irish Song' and the Politics of Remediation6 Homology, Analogy and the Perception of Irish Radicalism; 7 Lost Manuscripts and Reactionary Rustling: Was There a Radical Scottish Gaelic Poetry Between 1770 and 1820?; 8 Virile Vernaculars: Radical Sexuality as Social Subversion in Irish Chapbook Verse, 1780-1820; 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 thin a Grunt': Searching for the Radical Dialect Voice in Industrial Lancashire and the West Riding, 1798-1819Afterword: Th e Languages of Resistance; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Notes Previously issued in print: London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject 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
English literature
Politics and literature
Protest literature, English
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Kirk, John M. (John Monfries), 1952- editor
Noble, Andrew, 1939- editor.
Brown, Michael, 1972- editor.
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