Ballads and broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800
By: edited by Patricia Fumerton and Anita Guerrini with the assistance of Kris McAbee.
Contributors: Fumerton, Patricia.; Guerrini, Anita, 1953-; McAbee, Kris.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754662488
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : straws in the wind / Patricia Fumerton and Anita Guerrini; title: Remembering by dismembering : databases, archiving, and the recollection of seventeenth-century broadside ballads / Patricia Fumerton; title: The art of printing was fatal : print commerce and the idea of oral tradition in long eighteenth-century ballad discourse / Paula McDowell; title: Child's ballads and the broadside conundrum / Mary Ellen Brown; title: Journalism vs. tradition in the early English ballads of the murdered sweetheart / Thomas Pettit; title: Do you take this hog-faced woman to be your wedded wife? / Tassie Gniady; title: Advertising monstrosity : broadsides and human exhibition in early eighteenth-century London / Anita Guerrini; title: And I my vowe did keepe : oath making, subjectivity, and husband murder in "murderous wife" ballads / Simone Chess; title: Tracking the petty traitor across genres / Frances Dolan; title: Ballads and the emotional life of crime / Joy Wiltenburg; title: The maiden's bloody garland : Thomas Warton and the elite appropriation of popular song / Steve Newman; title: Ne sutor ultra crepidam : political cobblers and broadside ballads in late seventeenth-century England / Angela McShane; title: William Hogarth's pregnant ballad sellers and the engraver's matrix / Elizabeth Mitchell; title: War and the media in border minstrelsy : the ballad of Chevy Chase / Ruth Perry; title: Heroines gritty and tender, printed and oral, late-breaking and traditional : revisiting the Anglo-American female warrior / Dianne Dugaw; title: Music and Indians in John Gay's Polly / Noelle Chao; title: Afterword : ballad futures / by Bruce R. Smith.