Ballads and Songs of Peterloo.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781526132475
- 821/.708035820942733
- PR5412 .M674 2018
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.
This is an edited anthology comprising more than seventy poems and songs written in immediate response to Peterloo in 1819. Mainly anonymous, these ballads appears either as broadsides or in the radical press and are collected together for the first time.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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