Title Ballads and broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 / edited by Patricia Fumerton, Anita Guerrini ; with the assistance of Kris McAbee

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (374 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Music Examples; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction: Straws in the Wind; PART I RE-COLLECTING AND RE-DEFINING BALLADS; 2 Remembering by Dismembering: Databases, Archiving, and the Recollection of Seventeenth-Century Broadside Ballads; 3 ""The Art of Printing was Fatal"": Print Commerce and the Idea of Oral Tradition in Long Eighteenth-Century Ballad Discourse; 4 Child's Ballads and the Broadside Conundrum; PART II STRANGE NEWS: TRADITION, JOURNALISM, AND MONSTROSITY 5 Journalism vs. Tradition in the English Ballads of the Murdered Sweetheart6 Do You Take this Hog-Faced Woman to be Your Wedded Wife?; 7 Advertising Monstrosity: Broadsides and Human Exhibition in Early Eighteenth-Century London; PART III THE CRIMINAL SUBJECT: GENDER, LAW, AND EMOTION; 8 ""And I my vowe did keepe"": Oath Making, Subjectivity, and Husband Murder in ""Murderous Wife"" Ballads; 9 Tracking the Petty Traitor across Genres; 10 Ballads and the Emotional Life of Crime; PART IV THE MATTER OF PRINT: CLASS, CRAFT, AND AUTHORSHIP 11 ""The Maiden's Bloody Garland"": Thomas Warton and the Elite Appropriation of Popular Song12 ""Ne sutor ultra crepidam"": Political Cobblers and Broadside Ballads in Late Seventeenth-Century England; 13 William Hogarth's Pregnant Ballad Sellers and the Engraver's Matrix; PART V BORDER CROSSINGS: ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND THE NEW WORLD ; 14 War and the Media in Border Minstrelsy: The Ballad of Chevy Chase; 15 Heroines Gritty and Tender, Printed and Oral, Late-Breaking and Traditional: Revisiting the Anglo-American Female Warrior; 16 Music and Indians in John Gay's Polly Afterword: Ballad FuturesSelected Bibliography; Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Ballads, English -- Great Britain -- History and criticism Broadsides -- Great Britain -- History Street literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism Printing -- Great Britain -- History. Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Ballads, English Broadsides Popular culture Printing Street literature Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Fumerton, Patricia McAbee, Kris ISBN 9781317176381 1317176383 9781315568652 1315568659 9781317176367 1317176367

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