Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland: (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature a)

Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature a

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