Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) by Murray G. H. Pittock - 9780521410922 - Compare Discount Book Prices & Save up to 90%

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		Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought) by Murray G. H. Pittock ISBN-10: 9780521410922 ISBN-10: 0-521-41092-4 ISBN-13: 9780521410922 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-41092-2 Hardcover 1995-01-27 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price
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Product Description 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.
Book Description This book questions assumptions about the Augustan era through an exploration of Jacobite ideology in canonical and non-canonical literature. The 'four nations' literary history emerges, defined in terms of a struggle for control of the language of authority between Jacobite and Hanoverian writers.