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

    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 national identities. This book, the product of an international team of scholars, is the first to focus explicitly on the reputations of Thomas Moore in different parts of the world, including Bombay, Dublin, Leipzig, and London, as well as America, Canada, Greece, and the Hispanic world. Through it, we will understand more about Moore’s reception, and also appreciate how the publication and dissemination of poetry and song in the romantic and Victorian eras operated in different parts of the world—in particular considering how artistic and political networks effected the transmission of cultural products.

    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).