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Overview"A collection of 12 essays which examine a range of illicit or subversive discourses in European societies from the 16th century to the present. The contributors look at a variety of modes of popular expression, including anonymous speech (rumour, gossip, scandal and threats), slander and defamation, political literature and theatre, popular humour, ""anti-propaganda"" (prints, posters, cartoons and graffiti). The principal focus of the book is the responses of popular opinion to political events. Topics range from the reshaping of belief during the Reformation to popular responses to state propaganda in 20th-century dictatorships." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tim Kirk , Dermot CavanaghPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited Edition: New edition Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781840146431ISBN 10: 1840146435 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 07 July 2000 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; subversion and scurrility in the politics of popular discourses, Dermot Cavanagh and Tim Kirk; Sins of the mouth: signs of subversion in medieval English cycle plays, Lynn Forest-Hill; Skelton and scurrility, Dermot Cavanagh; Rumours and risings: plebeian insurrection and the circulation of subversive discourse around 1597, Nick Cox; The verse libel: popular satire in early modern England, Andrew McRae; To ’scourge the arse / Jove’s marrow so had wasted’: scurrility and the subversion of sodomy, James Knowles; Anticlerical slander in the English Civil War: John White’s First Century of Scandalous and Malignant Priests, James Rigney; His praeludiary weapons: mocking Colonel Hewson before and after the Restoration, Neil Durkin; Innuendo and inheritance: strategies of scurrility in medieval and Renaissance Venice, 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 Welsh’s shorter fiction, Willy Maley; Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationDermot Cavanagh and Tim Kirk, University of Northumbria, UK Dermot Cavanagh, Tim Kirk, Lynn Forest-Hill, Nick Cox, Andrew McRae, James Knowles, James Rigney, Neil Durkin, Alexander Cowan, Gerhard Ammerer, Malcolm Gee, Willy Maley. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |