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Romanticism and popular culture in Britain and Ireland / edited by Philip Connell and Nigel Leask.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Popular culture in literature.
- Popular culture and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Popular culture and literature.
- Popular culture and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Popular culture and literature--Ireland--History--18th century.
- Popular culture and literature--Ireland--History--19th century.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Romanticism--Ireland.
- Ireland.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- From the ballad seller to the Highland bard, from `pot-house politics' to the language of low and rustic life, the writers and artists of the British Romantic period drew eclectic inspiration from the realm of plebeian experience, even as they helped to constitute the field of popular culture as a new object of polite consumption.
- Representing the work of leading scholars from both Britain and North America, Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland offers a series of fascinating insights into changing representations of `the people', while demonstrating at the same time a unifying commitment to rethinking some of the fundamental categories that have shaped our view of the Romantic period. Addressing a series of key themes, including the ballad revival, popular politics, urbanization, and literary canon-formation, the volume also contains a substantial introductory essay, which provides a wide-ranging theoretical and historical overview of the subject.
- Contents:
- Part I Introduction 1
- 1 What is the people? / Philip Connell, Nigel Leask 3
- Part II Ballad Poetry and Popular Song 49
- 2 `A degrading species of Alchymy': ballad poetics, oral tradition, and the meanings of popular culture / Nigel Leask 51
- 3 Refiguring the popular in Charlotte Brooke's / Reliques of Irish Poetry, Leith Davis 72
- 4 `An individual flowering on a common stem': melody, performance, and national song / Kirsteen McCue 88
- Part III Politics and the People 107
- 5 Rus in urbe / John Barrell 109
- 6 The `sinking down' of Jacobinism and the rise of the counter-revolutionary man of letters / Kevin Gilmartin 128
- 7 Shelley's Mask of Anarchy and the visual iconography of female distress / Ian Haywood 148
- Part IV The Urban Experience 175
- 8 Popularizing the public: Robert Chambers and the rewriting of the antiquarian city / Ina Ferris 177
- 9 Keats, popular culture, and the sociability of theatre / Gillian Russell 194
- 10 A world within walls: Haydon, The Mock Election, and 1820s debtors' prisons / Gregory Dart 214
- Part V Canon-Formation and the Common Reader 237
- 11 Every-day poetry: William Hone, popular antiquarianism, and the literary anthology / Mina Gorji 239
- 12 How to popularize Wordsworth / Philip Connell 262.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521880121
- 0521880122
- OCLC:
- 261176725
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