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Ballads and Songs of Peterloo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526132475
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ballads and Songs of PeterlooDDC classification:
  • 821/.708035820942733
LOC classification:
  • PR5412 .M674 2018
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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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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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