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Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

Murray G.H. Pittock

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This book seeks to rewrite assumptions about the Augustan era through an exploration of Jacobite ideology. The author studies canonical and noncanonical literature and uncovers a new four nations literary history defined in terms of a struggle for control of the language of authority between Jacobite and Hanoverian writers. Sources explored include ballads in Scots, Irish, Welsh and Gaelic. The author concludes that the literary history of the Augustan age is built on the history of the victors in the Revolution of 1688.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: January 27, 1995

ISBN: 0521410924

ISBN 13: 9780521410922

Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

Murray G.H. Pittock

3.5/5 ( ratings)

This book seeks to rewrite assumptions about the Augustan era through an exploration of Jacobite ideology. The author studies canonical and noncanonical literature and uncovers a new four nations literary history defined in terms of a struggle for control of the language of authority between Jacobite and Hanoverian writers. Sources explored include ballads in Scots, Irish, Welsh and Gaelic. The author concludes that the literary history of the Augustan age is built on the history of the victors in the Revolution of 1688.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: January 27, 1995

ISBN: 0521410924

ISBN 13: 9780521410922

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