Description |
1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Why there no poetic justice in The beggar's opera : ballad, lyric, and the semiautonomy of culture -- Scots songs in the Scottish Enlightenment : pastoral, progress, and the lyric split in Allan Ramsay, John Home, and Robert Burns -- Addressing the problem of a lyric history : collecting Shakespeare's songs/Shakespeare as song collector -- Ballads and the problem of lyric violence in Blake and Wordsworth -- Reading as remembering and the subject of lyric : child ballads, children's ballads, and the New Criticism |
Summary |
Compelling and insightful, Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon makes an important contribution to our understanding of the ballad and its long-ranging impact on the institution of literature |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282) and index |
Notes |
In English |
Subject |
Ballads, English -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
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Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- History and criticism
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Ballads in literature.
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Popular culture in literature.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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Criticism -- Great Britain -- History
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Criticism -- United States -- History
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Ballads, English
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Ballads in literature
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Ballads, Scots
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Criticism
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English literature
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Popular culture in literature
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Great Britain
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Scotland
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780812202939 |
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0812202937 |
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