Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-350) and index.
Contents:
Afterword : ballad futures / by Bruce R. Smith. 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.
Summary:
"Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history), Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 offers an unprecedented perspective on the development and cultural practice of popular print in early modern Britain. Fifteen essays explore major issues raised by the broadside genre in the early modern period: the different methods by which contemporaries of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries collected and "appreciated" such early modern popular forms; the preoccupation in the early modern period with news and especially monsters; the concomitant fascination with and representation of crime and the criminal subject; the technology and formal features of early modern broadside print together with its bearing on gender, class, and authority/authorship; and, finally, the nationalizing and internationalizing of popular culture through crossings against (and sometimes with) cultural Others in ballads and broadsides of the time."--pub. desc.
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