Ballads and songs of Peterloo /

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This is an edited anthology comprising more than seventy poems and songs written in immediate response to Peterloo in 1819. Mainly anonymous, these ballads appear either as broadsides or in the radical press and are collected together for the first time.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morgan, Alison
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
1819
Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England, 1819 > Poetry.
Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England, 1819 > Songs and music.
Massacre de Peterloo, Manchester, Angleterre, 1819 > Poésie.
Massacre de Peterloo, Manchester, Angleterre, 1819 > Chants et musique.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
England > Manchester
Electronic books.
Poetry
Songs and music
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 'Rise Britons, rise now from your slumber': the revolutionary call to arms; 'Ye English warriors': radical nationalism andthe true patriot; 'Base brat of reform': the victimisation of mother and child; 'Your memorials shallsurvive the grave': elegy and remembrance; 'Those true sons of Mars': chivalry, cowardice andthe power of satire; 'Freeman stand, or freeman die': liberty and slavery; Appendix The Masque of Anarchy; Select bibliography; Index of poem titles; Index.

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