Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution

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The series examines how these two intimately related genres were used to explore and disseminate new political ideas in a period of Enlightenment, Romanticism and Revolution.

Scholars working within the disciplines of English, History, Music, Celtic Studies and Politics will find the series of interest, as will researchers whose wider concerns pertain to cultural history, anthropology and the history of philosophy, communications and linguistics.

Readership

Titles in this series will appeal to those involved in English literary studies, as well as those working in fields of study that cover Enlightenment, Romanticism and Revolution in the last quarter of the eighteenth century.

Editorial board

Michael Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Irish and Scottish History at the University of Aberdeen and is currently the Acting Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. His work concerns the structuring of political and moral discourse in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. His approach is often comparative and interdisciplinary, with a focus on literary and philosophical writings. Recent publications include A Political Biography of John Toland (Pickering & Chatto, 2012) and The Law and Other Legalities of Ireland, 1689–1850, co-edited (Ashgate Press, 2011).

John Kirk is a Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. His current research includes the on-going ICE-Ireland Corpus Project, examining Standard English in Ireland using a methodology informed by dialectology and sociolinguistics. Publications include Language and Politics of the Gaeltacht and Scotstacht, 2000–2010: Review and Impact (Cló Ollscoil na Banríona, 2011) and Sustaining Minority Language Development and Strategies for Minority Languages (edited) (Cló Ollscoil na Banríona, 2011).

Andrew Noble was previously the Head of the Literature Department at the University of Strathclyde and Convenor of the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative. He has published extensively on Scottish literature and is a co-editor of A Lanternist's Account (1993) and The Canongate Burns (2003). He is currently Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast.

Forthcoming titles

• Cultures of Radicalism in Britain and Ireland

  Editors: Michael Brown, John Kirk and Andrew Noble

  (February 2013)
• Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song

  Julie Henigan

  (October 2012)
• United Islands? The Languages of Resistance

  Editors: Michael Brown, John Kirk and Andrew Noble

  (July 2012)

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