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The Reputations of Thomas Moore: Poetry, Music, and Politics book cover

1st Edition

The Reputations of Thomas Moore Poetry, Music, and Politics

Edited By Sarah McCleave, Triona O'Hanlon Copyright 2019
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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This collection of eleven essays positions Moore within a developing and expanding international readership during the course of the nineteenth century. In accounting for the successes he achieved and the challenges he faced, recurring themes include: Moore’s influence and reputation; modes of dissemination through networks and among communities; also, the articulation of personal, political, and... Read more

List of Figures

Introduction

1 The Role of Community, Network and Sentiment in Shaping the Reputations of Thomas Moore

SARAH McCLEAVE

PART I

Moore’s Reputations as a Poet

2 "A Canadian Boat Song": Origins and Impact in English Canada

D.M.R. BENTLEY

3 Satire, Militarism and the Hunt: Appropriations of Thomas Moore in Sporting Bombay

Máire Ní Fhlathúin

4 Thomas Moore in the Hispanic World

SARA MEDINA CALZADA

5 When Thomas Moore Was the Headline Act: John Boyle O’Reilly, Cultural Politics and the Marketability of Moore

BRIAN G. CARAHER

PART II

Moore’s Reputations as Established through Music Networks

6 The National Airs and Moore’s Reputation in London

Tríona O’Hanlon

7 Romantic Patriotism and the Building of Reputation: The Case of Robert Schumann’s Paradies und die Peri

ANJA BUNZEL

8 "Higher Universal Language of the Heart" The Reputations of Moore’s Irish Melodies in the US

SARAH GERK

Part III

Moore’s Reputations as Established through Political Networks

9 ‘Where bastard freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves’: Thomas Moore in America

JENNIFER MARTIN

10 The Influence of Thomas Moore in the Nineteenth-century Greek-speaking World

KATHLEEN ANN O’DONNELL

11 Young Ireland and the Superannuated Bard: Rewriting Thomas Moore in The Nation

Francesca Benatti

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Biography

Sarah McCleave is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s University Belfast; she was Director of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2015-2017).

Tríona O’Hanlon is a violinist and musicologist; she was Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow in Music at the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s University Belfast (2015-2017).

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