Author: Francis HOSIER (Admiral.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Admiral Hosier's Ghost. A Ballad. By R. Glover.
Author: Francis HOSIER (Admiral.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Joseph J. KrulderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000381188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
According to Voltaire's Candide, Admiral John Byng's 1757 execution went forward to 'encourage the others'. Of course, the story is more complicated. This microhistorical account upon a macro-event presents an updated, revisionist, and detailed account of a dark chapter in British naval history. Asking 'what was Britain like the moment Byng returned to Portsmouth after the Battle of Minorca (1756)?' not only returns a glimpse of mid-eighteenth century Britain but provides a deeper understanding of how a wartime admiral, the son of a peer, of some wealth, a once colonial governor, and sitting member of parliament came to be scapegoated and then executed for the failings of others. This manuscript presents a cultural, social, and political dive into Britain at the beginning of the Seven Years' War. Part 1 focuses on ballad, newspaper, and prize culture. Part 2 makes a turn towards the social where religion, morality, rioting, and disease play into the Byng saga. Admiral Byng's record during the 1755 Channel Campaign is explored, as is the Mediterranean context of the Seven Years' War, troubles elsewhere in the empire, and then the politics behind Byng's trial and execution.
Political Ballads Illustrating the Administration of Sir Robert Walpole
Author: Milton Oswin PercivalPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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An Index to Poetry and Recitations
Author: Edith GrangerPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
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Tales of Wonder
Author: Matthew Gregory LewisPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770480536
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
In the late eighteenth century, Matthew Gregory “Monk” Lewis, a notorious author of lurid Gothic novels and plays, began to gather this collection of horror ballads. Including original and traditional works, translations and adaptations, and even burlesques of the Gothic, this “hobgoblin repast,” as Lewis called it, brings together a fascinating assortment of works. Contributors include Lewis, the young Walter Scott, William Taylor of Norwich, John Leyden, and Robert Southey. Appendices contain selections from Tales of Terror (1801), a text long intertwined with Lewis’s collection; information on Scott’s An Apology for Tales of Terror (1799); and parodies and reviews of Lewis’s particular brand of Gothic poetry.
The Roxburghe Ballads
Author: William ChappellPublisher:
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Index to Poetry and Recitations
Author: British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The Roxburghe Ballads, Etc
Author: Ballad Society (London)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 368
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