Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture
Subtitle: A Selection
Contributors: John Mullan (Editor); Christopher Reid (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 27, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780198711346
First sentence: THE Introduction discussed how appropriate our ideas about popular culture might be when applied to the eighteenth century, and noticed that collisions of the polite and the popular-the elegant and the vulgar-are characteristic of much 'high' culture of the earlier part of the period.