Format:
1 online resource (398 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781805110415
Content:
Intro -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- David Atkinson and 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 -- Select Bibliography.
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Language:
English