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Author Newman, Steve, 1970-

Title Ballad collection, lyric, and the canon : the call of the popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism / Steve Newman
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007

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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
Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- History and criticism
Ballads in literature.
Popular culture in literature.
English literature -- History and criticism.
Criticism -- Great Britain -- History
Criticism -- United States -- History
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Ballads, English
Ballads in literature
Ballads, Scots
Criticism
English literature
Popular culture in literature
Great Britain
Scotland
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812202939
0812202937