James Grande is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King’s College London. He was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the European Research Council-funded project, ‘Music in London, 1800-1851’, directed by Roger Parker. His publications include William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England: Radicalism and the Fourth Estate, 1789-1835 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), William Cobbett, Romanticism and the Enlightenment: Contexts and Legacy (with John Stevenson; Pickering & Chatto, 2015), William Hazlitt: The Spirit of Controversy and Other Essays (with Jon Mee; Oxford University Press, 2021), Sound and Sense in British Romanticism (with Carmel Raz; Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain (with Brian H. Murray; Bloomsbury, 2023). He is a trustee of Keats-Shelley House, Rome and editor of the Keats-Shelley Review.

• Acknowledgements List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Dissenting Voices Chapter 1: Hearing Blake’s Visions Chapter 2: Godwin, Holcroft, and Hadyn Chapter 3: Bardic Hymns Chapter 4: Amelia Opie Sings Chapter 5: Lake School Soundscapes Chapter 6: Dissenting from Opera Chapter 7: Edward Irving’s Voices Coda: Harmony on the StrandBibliography Index

James Grande is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King’s College London. He was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the European Research Council-funded project, ‘Music in London, 1800-1851’, directed by Roger Parker. His publications include William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England: Radicalism and the Fourth Estate, 1789-1835 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), William Cobbett, Romanticism and the Enlightenment: Contexts and Legacy (with John Stevenson; Pickering & Chatto, 2015), William Hazlitt: The Spirit of Controversy and Other Essays (with Jon Mee; Oxford University Press, 2021), Sound and Sense in British Romanticism (with Carmel Raz; Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain (with Brian H. Murray; Bloomsbury, 2023). He is a trustee of Keats-Shelley House, Rome and editor of the Keats-Shelley Review.

• Acknowledgements List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Dissenting Voices Chapter 1: Hearing Blake’s Visions Chapter 2: Godwin, Holcroft, and Hadyn Chapter 3: Bardic Hymns Chapter 4: Amelia Opie Sings Chapter 5: Lake School Soundscapes Chapter 6: Dissenting from Opera Chapter 7: Edward Irving’s Voices Coda: Harmony on the StrandBibliography Index

James Grande is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King’s College London. He was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the European Research Council-funded project, ‘Music in London, 1800-1851’, directed by Roger Parker. His publications include William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England: Radicalism and the Fourth Estate, 1789-1835 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), William Cobbett, Romanticism and the Enlightenment: Contexts and Legacy (with John Stevenson; Pickering & Chatto, 2015), William Hazlitt: The Spirit of Controversy and Other Essays (with Jon Mee; Oxford University Press, 2021), Sound and Sense in British Romanticism (with Carmel Raz; Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain (with Brian H. Murray; Bloomsbury, 2023). He is a trustee of Keats-Shelley House, Rome and editor of the Keats-Shelley Review.

• Acknowledgements List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Dissenting Voices Chapter 1: Hearing Blake’s Visions Chapter 2: Godwin, Holcroft, and Hadyn Chapter 3: Bardic Hymns Chapter 4: Amelia Opie Sings Chapter 5: Lake School Soundscapes Chapter 6: Dissenting from Opera Chapter 7: Edward Irving’s Voices Coda: Harmony on the StrandBibliography Index