Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland

Herausgeber: Connell, Philip; Leask, Nigel

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Produktbeschreibung

An edited collection examining the construction of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780521349604
• ISBN-10: 0521349605
• Artikelnr.: 33611307

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. What is the people? Philip Connell and Nigel
Leask; Part II. Ballad Poetry and Popular Song: 2. 'A degrading species of
Alchymy': ballad poetics, oral tradition and the meanings of popular
culture Nigel Leask; 3. Refiguring the popular in Charlotte Brooke's
Reliques of Irish Poetry Leith Davis; 4. 'An individual flowering on a
common stem': melody, performance and national song Kirsteen McCue; Part
III. Politics and the People: 5. Rus in Urbe John Barrell; 6. The 'sinking
down' of Jacobinism and the rise of the counter-revolutionary man of
letters Kevin Gilmartin; 7. Shelley's Mask of Anarchy and the visual
iconography of female distress Ian Haywood; Part IV. The Urban Experience:
8. Popularizing the public: Robert Chambers and the rewriting of the
antiquarian city Ina Ferris; 9. Keats, popular culture and the sociability
of theatre Gillian Russell; 10. A world within walls: Haydon, The Mock
Election and debtors' prisons Greg Dart; Part V. Canon-Formation and the
Common Reader: 11. Every-day poetry: William Hone, popular antiquarianism,
and the literary anthology Mina Gorji; 12. How to popularize Wordsworth
Philip Connell.