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 Jacob
Poetry and Jacobite politics in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland
โ Scribed by Murray Pittock
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 268
- Series
- Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Acknowledgements (page xiii)
Introduction (page 1)
1 Invasion and xenophobia (page 9)
2 The wee, wee German lairdie (page 59)
3 The codes of the canon (page 94)
4 Jacobite political culture in Scotland (page 133)
5 Jacobite culture in Ireland and Wales (page 187)
6 The demon's light (page 207)
7 The tartan curtain (page 223)
Additional works (page 243)
Index (page 251)
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