Later English broadside ballads
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Later English broadside ballads
(Routledge reissues)
Routledge, 2006
- : set
- v. 1
- v. 2
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Kobe Shoin Women's University Library / Kobe Shoin Women's College Library
v. 11163776,
v. 21163777
Note
Originally published: London : Routledge & kegan Paul, c1975-1979
Bibliography: v. 1: p. 286-290, v. 2: p. 317-321
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: set ISBN 9780415372220
Description
Broadside or 'street' ballads not only give the flavour of english life and history more vividly than much historical evidence of more conventional kinds, but also their sheer poetic quality often makes them substantial poems, light or serious, in their own right. They are reprinted from contemporary or near contemporary broadsides in the Madden Collection at the University Library, Cambridge, and the head and tail blocks, so distinctive a feature of the original texts, are reproduced for this edition. The introduction is designed to enable the reader to read the texts in perspective and with pleasure, and the book includes a select bibiography and an index of ballad titles.
- Volume
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v. 1 ISBN 9780415372237
Description
Lively, exciting, amusing - this collection of ballads reveal the bawdy, anarchic sub-culture of England before the Industrial Revolution. Drawn from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it demonstrates the great wealth and variety of the English broadside ballads during these periods. At this time political balladry was rife and Irish ballads began to be composed in English - their distinctive background giving them a unique range of poetry. Indeed, these ballads represent an extensive, varied and important area of English literature. Written, as the editors observe, 'to provide a moment in which listeners could enjoy verse, wit and song', they very much reflect the lively observation, love of detail and social awareness of the age of the novel. This volume includes 127 ballads, ranging from "Admiral Benbow" and "The Jolly Bacchanal" to "The Bottle the Best Companion" and "The Young Man's Fortune". Reprinted from contemporary or near-contemporary broadsides in the "Madden Collection" at the University Library, Cambridge, the head and tail blocks, a distinguished feature of the original texts, are also reproduced for this edition.
The introduction is designed to enable individuals to read the texts in perspective and with pleasure. The book further includes a select bibliography and an index of ballad titles. This book was first published in 1975.
Table of Contents
Introduction The Ballads Select Bibliography Index of Titles Index of First Lines
- Volume
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v. 2 ISBN 9780415372299
Description
Broadside or 'Street' ballads not only give the flavour of English life and history more vividly than much historical evidence of more conventional kinds, but their sheer poetic quality often makes them substantial poems, light or serious, in their own right. This second volume, taking examples mainly over the years 1800-40 from the immense "Madden Collection" in the University Library, Cambridge, continues the same literary emphasis, especially with a large number of pieces exploiting all the bustle, humour and variety of life in London - the colourful, crowded, rapidly-expanding metropolis of the period. Other sections concentrate on more traditional themes like crime and transportation, religion (some moving 'freemason' songs), love-making, sex and the 'sex war': or on fashion, the Royal Family and its escapades, and life in the army or navy. There is also an extensive collection of 'Napoleon' ballads, ranging from the early years through to his final re-internment in Paris. This book, illustrated with some remarkable large-scale contemporary woodcuts, should interest not only social historians and students of literature, but also all who have an ear for the verse of the people.
This book was first published in 1979.
Table of Contents
Abbreviations Introduction to Volume 2 1. The Ballad and its Singers 2. Love Songs and Narratives 3. Sex Tricks and the Sex War 4. Rambles and Rigs 5. Marriage 6. Comic Ballads 7. Social Life 8. Religion and Morals 9. Rural Life 10. Crime 11. The Army and the Navy 12. Napolean 13. The State of the Nation 14. The Royal Family 15. 'Ballads on a Subject' 16. Fashion 17. Trades Ballads Select Bibliography Index of Titles Index of First Lines
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