Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture

Jayne Lewis, Studies in English Literature The essays themselves are to a one illuminating and exact, sumptuously supported with visual material, and deeply committed to conversation among themselves ... [a] gregarious volume

Steve Roud This book is an essential contribution to our understanding of an important period in the development of popular culture.

Oskar Cox Jensen is a Leverhulme Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. From 2013 to 2017 he was a Research Fellow on the ERC-funded project 'Music in London, 1800-1851' at King's College London. His publications include Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822 (2015), and The London Ballad-Singer, 1792-1864. With David Kennerley, he is preparing a collection on music and politics, c.1780-1850. He has authored various articles and book chapters, as well as several works of fiction. David Kennerley is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the 'Music in London, 1800-1851' project at King's College London. His research explores the history of sound, music, and performance in Britain in the long nineteenth century, with a particular focus on sonic aspects of gender, and of political culture. His work has been published in the Historical Journal, and has featured in a Bodleian Library exhibition and accompanying book on Staging History, 1780-1840. He is currently completing a monograph on female singers in early nineteenth-century Britain, and, with Oskar Cox Jensen, editing a collection of essays on music and politics, c.1780-1850. Ian Newman is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, and a fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish studies. He specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and Irish literature. His work has appeared in Studies in English Literature, European Romantic Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Studies in Romanticism. He is currently completing a book The Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution. He is engaged in a digital project tracing the meeting places of the London Corresponding Society and is a founding editor of the Keats Letters Project.

Roger Parker: Foreword A Chronology of Charles Dibdin 1: Ian Newman, Oskar Cox Jensen, David Kennerley: Introducing Mr Dibdin Part One: Dibdin in Context 2: Felicity Nussbaum: Mungo Here, Mungo 'Der': Dibdin and Racial Performance 3: Michael Burden: Dibdin at the Royal Circus 4: Katie Osborn: Interlude 1 Dibdin and Robert Bloomfield: Voicing the Clown in Town 5: David O' Shaughnessy: The Detail is in The Devil: Dibdin's Patriotism in the 1780s 6: Judith Hawley: Dibdin and the Dilettantes Nicola Pritchard-Pink: Interlude 2 Dibdin and Jane Austen: Musical Cultures of Gentry Women Part Two: Songs in Focus 7: Oskar Cox Jensen: 'True Courage': A Song in History 8: Harriet Guest: A Motley Assembly: 'The Margate Hoy' Nick Grindle: Interlude 3 Dibdin and John Raphael Smith: Print Culture and Fine Art Part Three: Nineteenth-Century Transitions 9: Susan Valladares: The Changing Theatrical Economy: Charles Dibdin the Younger at Sadler's Wells, 1814-19 10: Jim Davis: Writing for Actors: The Dramas of Thomas Dibdin 11: Isaac Land: Each Song was just like a little Sermon': Dibdin's Victorian Afterlives Mark Philp: Afterword: Dibdin's Miscellany