A study of the construction of Irish national identity from the early eighteenth until the mid-nineteenth centuries, focusing in particular on how texts concerning Irish music, as well as the social settings within which those texts emerged, contributed to the imagining of Ireland as "the Land of Song."
A study of the construction of Irish national identity from the early eighteenth until the mid-nineteenth centuries, focusing in particular on how tex...
In "Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender", Leith Davis studies the construction of Irish national identity from the early eighteenth until the midnineteenth centuries, focusing in particular on how texts concerning Irish music, as well as the social settings within which those texts emerged, contributed to the imagining of Ireland as "the Land of Song." Through her considerations of collections of Irish music by the Neals, Edward Bunting, and George Petrie, antiquarian tracts by Joseph Cooper Walker and Charlotte Brooke, lyrics and "The Wild Irish Girl" by Sidney Owenson, and songs by Thomas...
In "Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender", Leith Davis studies the construction of Irish national identity from the early eighteenth until the midninete...
This original collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 includes essays by leading scholars from Scotland, England, Canada and the U.S. Addressing a range of major figures and topics, the essays examine their relationship to the concepts of the Scottish Enlightenment and British literary Romanticism as well as to Scottish and English writing.
This original collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 includes essays by leading scholars from Scotland, Engla...
Acts of Union explores the political relationship between Scotland and England as it was negotiated in the literary realm in the century after the 1707 Act of Union. It examines Britain, one of the precursors to the modern nation, not as a homogeneous, stable unit, but as a dynamic process, a dialogue between heterogeneous elements. Far from being constituted by a single Act of Union, the author contends, Britain was forged--in all the variant senses of that word--from multiple acts of union and dislocation over time. Accordingly, each of the first five chapters focuses on a discursive...
Acts of Union explores the political relationship between Scotland and England as it was negotiated in the literary realm in the century after ...
This original collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 includes essays by leading scholars from Scotland, England, Canada and the U.S. Addressing a range of major figures and topics, the essays examine their relationship to the concepts of the Scottish Enlightenment and British literary Romanticism as well as to Scottish and English writing.
This original collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 includes essays by leading scholars from Scotland, Engla...
