Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fumerton, Patricia.
• Guerrini, Anita, 1953-
• McAbee, Kris.

Description

xv, 357 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-350) and index.

Contents

Introduction : straws in the wind / Patricia Fumerton and Anita Guerrini -- Remembering by dismembering : databases, archiving, and the recollection of seventeenth-century broadside ballads / Patricia Fumerton -- The art of printing was fatal : print commerce and the idea of oral tradition in long eighteenth-century ballad discourse / Paula McDowell -- Child's ballads and the broadside conundrum / Mary Ellen Brown -- Journalism vs. tradition in the early English ballads of the murdered sweetheart / Thomas Pettit -- Do you take this hog-faced woman to be your wedded wife? / Tassie Gniady -- Advertising monstrosity : broadsides and human exhibition in early eighteenth-century London / Anita Guerrini -- And I my vowe did keepe : oath making, subjectivity, and husband murder in "murderous wife" ballads / Simone Chess -- Tracking the petty traitor across genres / Frances Dolan -- Ballads and the emotional life of crime / Joy Wiltenburg -- The maiden's bloody garland : Thomas Warton and the elite appropriation of popular song / Steve Newman -- Ne sutor ultra crepidam : political cobblers and broadside ballads in late seventeenth-century England / Angela McShane -- William Hogarth's pregnant ballad sellers and the engraver's matrix / Elizabeth Mitchell -- War and the media in border minstrelsy : the ballad of Chevy Chase / Ruth Perry -- Heroines gritty and tender, printed and oral, late-breaking and traditional : revisiting the Anglo-American female warrior / Dianne Dugaw -- Music and Indians in John Gay's Polly / Noelle Chao -- Afterword : ballad futures / by Bruce R. Smith.

Call Number

JME 10-234

ISBN

• 9780754662488 (alk. paper)
• 0754662489 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2009043305

OCLC

461323906

Title

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

Imprint

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-350) and index.

Added Author

Fumerton, Patricia.

Guerrini, Anita, 1953-

McAbee, Kris.

Research Call Number

JME 10-234