UID:
almafu_9960119611502883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781139085274
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1139085271
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9780511519093
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0511519095
Serie:
Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought Series ; Volume 23
Inhalt:
The aim of this book is to question assumptions about the nature of the Augustan era through an exploration of Jacobite ideology. Taking as its starting point the fundamental ambivalence of the Augustan concept the author studies canonical and non-canonical literature and uncovers the 'four nations' literary history of the period defined in terms of a struggle for control of the language of authority between Jacobite and Hanoverian writers. This struggle is seen to have crystallized Irish and Scottish opposition to the British state. The Jacobite cause generated powerful popular literature and the sources explored include ballads, broadsides and writing in Scots, Irish, Welsh and Gaelic. The author concludes that the literary history we inherit is built on the political outcome of the Revolution of 1688.
Anmerkung:
Includes index.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780521030274
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0521030277
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780521410922
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0521410924
Sprache:
Englisch
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