Political Ballads Of The 17th And 18th Centuries

The book covers over 200 years of constitutional conflict in England, Scotland and Ireland through contemporaneous songs providing examples from all aspects of political/social/religious life of the Stuart period.

Horgan analyses the importance of songs in British eighteenth-century culture with specific reference to their political meaning. Using an interdisciplinary methodology, combining the perspectives of literary studies and cultural history, the utilitarian power of songs emerges across four major case studies.