Subversion and Scurrility (Hardcover)
by Dermot Cavanagh (Editor), Tim Kirk (Editor)
- Synopsis
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Members of the research group collaborated with colleagues in English on this volume, that presents case studies of subversive discourse in European history, from the early modern period to the present day.
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.
- Contents
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- Sins of the mouth: signs of subversion in medieval English cycle plays
- Lynn Forest Hill, Southampton University
- Skelton and scurrility
- Dermot Cavanagh, University of Northumbria
- Rumours and risings: plebian insurrection and the circulation of subversive discourse around 1597
- Nick Cox, Leeds Metropolitan University
- The verse libel: popular satire in early modern England
- Andrew McRae, University of Exeter
- To 'scourge the arse/Jove's marrow so had wasted': scurrility and the subversion of sodomy
- James Knowles, University of Stirling
- Anticlerical slander in the English Civil War: John White's 'First Century of Scandalous and Malignant Priests'
- James Rigney, University of Cambridge
- His Praeludiary Weapons: mocking Colonel Hewson before and after the Restoration
- Neil Durkin, Amnesty International
- Innuendo and inheritance: strategies of scurrility in medieval and Renaissance Venice
- Alexander Cowan, University of Northumbria
- The last Austrian-Turkish war (1788-91) and public opinion in Vienna
- Gerhard Ammerer, University of Salzburg
- Surrealist blasphemy
- Malcolm Gee, University of Northumbria
- Subversion and squirrility in Irvine Welsh's shorter fiction
- Willy Maley, University of Glasgow
- Pages:
- 210
- Publisher:
- Ashgate (7 Jul 2000)
- Language:
- English
- ISBN-10:
- 1840146435
- ISBN-13:
- 978-1840146431