UID:
almahu_9949574478102882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 388 pages) :
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32 illustrations, music.
ISBN:
9781805110415
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9781805110422
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9781805110446
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9781805110453
Content:
"This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature - ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints - in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature. The breadth and depth of the contributions give a much fuller and more nuanced picture of what was being widely published and read during this period than has previously been available. It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century popular culture and literature, print history and the book trade, ballad and folk studies, children's literature, and social history."--Publisher's website.
Note:
Available through Open Book Publishers.
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1. Introduction / David Atkinson, Steve Roud -- 2. Charles and Sarah Bates and the Transition from Black-Letter / David Atkinson -- 3. Pictures on the Street: Cheap Pictorial Prints in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Sheila O'Connell -- 4. Popular Print in a Regional Capital: Street Literature and Public Controversy in Norwich, 1701-1800 / David Stoker -- 5. Anthony Soulby, Chapbook Printer of Penrith (1740-1816) / Barry McKay -- 6. Chapmen's Books Printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks (1757-61) / David Atkinson -- 7. Slip Songs and Engraved Song Sheets / David Stoker -- 8. 'The Arethusa': Slip Songs and the Mainstream Canon / Oskar Cox Jensen -- 9. Story Books, Godly Books, Ballads, and Song Books: The Chapbook in Scotland, 1740-1820 / Iain Beavan -- 10. Alphabet Pies, Animal Quacks, and Ugly Sisters: John Evans and the Growth of Cheap Books for Children / Jonathan Cooper -- 11. Street Literature and Cheap Fiction / David Atkinson -- 12. Afterword / David Atkinson, Steve Roud.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
URL:
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