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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E. David Gregory
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2006-04-13
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 1461674174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVictorian Songhunters is a pioneering history of the rediscovery of vernacular song—street songs that have entered oral tradition and have been passed from generation to generation—in England during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. In the nineteenth century there were four main types of vernacular song: ballads, folk lyrics, occupational songs, and national songs. The discovery, collecting, editing, and publishing of all four varieties are examined in the book, and over seventy-five selected examples are given for illustrative purposes. Key concepts, such as traditional balladry, broadside balladry, folksong, and national song, are analyzed, as well as the complicated relationship between print and oral tradition and the different methodological approaches to ballad and song editing. Organized chronologically, Victorian Songhunters sketches the history of English song collecting from its beginnings in the mid-seventeenth century; focuses on the work of important individual collectors and editors, such as William Chappell, Francis J. Child, and John Broadwood; examines the growth of regional collecting in various counties throughout England; and demonstrates the considerable efforts of two important Victorian institutions, the Percy Society and its successor, the Ballad Society. The appendixes contain discussions on interpreting songs, an assessment of relevant secondary sources, and a bibliography and alphabetical song list. Author E. David Gregory provides a solid foundation for the scholarly study of balladry and folksong, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Victorian intellectual and cultural life.
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 42
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Albert Harris Tolman
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 56
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 110
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 450
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Harrington Cox
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 606
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Simon Kövesi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-08-02
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1349591831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates what it is that makes John Clare’s poetic vision so unique, and asks how we use Clare for contemporary ends. It explores much of the criticism that has appeared in response to his life and work, and asks hard questions about the modes and motivations of critics and editors. Clare is increasingly regarded as having been an environmentalist long before the word appeared; this book investigates whether this ‘green’ rush to place him as a radical proto-ecologist does any disservice to his complex positions in relation to social class, work, agriculture, poverty and women. This book attempts to unlock Clare’s own theorisations and practices of what we might now call an ‘ecological consciousness’, and works out how his ‘ecocentric’ mode might relate to that of other Romantic poets. Finally, this book asks how we might treat Clare as our contemporary while still being attentive to the peculiarities of his unique historical circumstances.
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Published: 1864
Total Pages: 872
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 376
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