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Title:

The spoken word : oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850 / edited by Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf.

Publisher:

Distributed exclusivelyin the U.S. by Palgrave,
Distributed exclusivelyin the U.S. by Palgrave,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

x, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Oral tradition--Great Britain.
Literature and folklore--Great Britain.
Literature and history--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Languages.
Great Britain--Social life and customs.

Other Authors:

Fox, Adam, 1964-
Woolf, D. R. (Daniel R.)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Language, literacy and aspects of identity in early modern Wales / Richard Suggett and Eryn White -- The pulpit and the pen: clergy, orality and print in the Scottish Gaelic world / Donald Meek -- Speaking of history: conversations about the past in restoration and eighteenth-century England / Daniel Woolf -- Vagabonds and minstrels in sixteenth-century Wales / Richard Suggett -- Reformed folklore? Cautionary tales and oral tradition in early modern England / Alexandra Walsham -- The genealogical histories of Gaelic Scotland / Martin MacGregor -- Constructing oral tradition: the origins of the concept in enlightenment intellectual culture / Nicholas Hudson -- 'Things said or sung a thousand times': customary society and oral culture in rural England, 1700-1900 / Bob Bushaway.

Series:

Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain

ISBN:

9780719057472 (pbk.)
0719057477 (pbk.)
9780719057465 (hc.)
0719057469 (hc.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51059147
(OCoLC)51668900

LCCN:

2002043172

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)