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Subversion and scurrility : popular discourse in Europe from 1500 to the present
Title
Subversion and scurrility : popular discourse in Europe from 1500 to the present / edited by Dermot Cavanagh and Tim Kirk.
ISBN
1351897047
1351897055
9781351897044
9781351897051
1315242109
1351897039
1840146435
9781840146431
Published
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., ©2000.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 210 pages) : illustrations
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Notes
Papers presented at an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle in 1996.
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2023.
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Summary
"Gossip, rumour, scandal and defamation are just some of the popular discourses examined in this collection of essays by an international group of scholars. Featuring research on a wide range of resource materials (including political literature, police reports, drama, ballads, contemporary fiction, poetry and caricatures) the volume provides an introduction to the history and sociology of dissent."--BOOK JACKET.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Sins of the mouth / Lynn Forest-Hill
Skelton and scurrility / Dermot Cavanagh
Rumours and risings / Nick Cox
The verse libel / Andrew McRae
To 'scourge the arse/Jove's marrow so had wasted' / James Knowles
Anticlerical slander in the english civil war / James Rigney
His praeludiary weapons / Neil Durkin
Innuendo and inheritance / Alexander Cowan
The last austrian-turkish war (1788-91) and public opinion in Vienna / Gerhard Ammerer
Surrealist blasphemy / Malcolm Gee
The policing of popular opinion in nazi Germany / Tim Kirk
Subversion and squirrility in Irvine Welch's shorter fiction / Willy Maley.
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