Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century write by David Atkinson. This book was released on 2017-08-21. Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For centuries, street literature was the main cheap reading material of the working classes: broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, prints, engravings, and other forms of print produced specifically to suit their taste and cheap enough for even the poor to buy. Starting in the sixteenth century, but at its chaotic and flamboyant peak in the nineteenth, street literature was on sale everywhere – in urban streets and alleyways, at country fairs and markets, at major sporting events and holiday gatherings, and under the gallows at public executions. For this very reason, it was often despised and denigrated by the educated classes, but remained enduringly popular with the ordinary people. Anything and everything was grist to the printers’ mill, if it would sell. A penny could buy you a celebrity scandal, a report of a gruesome murder, the last dying speech of a condemned criminal, wonder tales, riddles and conundrums, a moral tale of religious danger and redemption, a comic tale of drunken husbands and shrewish wives, a temperance tract or an ode to beer, a satire on dandies, an alphabet or “reed-a-ma-daisy” (reading made easy) to teach your children, an illustrated chapbook of nursery rhymes, or the adventures of Robin Hood and Jack the Giant Killer. Street literature long held its own by catering directly for the ordinary people, at a price they could afford, but, by the end of the Victorian era, it was in terminal decline and was rapidly being replaced by a host of new printed materials in the shape of cheap newspapers and magazines, penny dreadful novels, music hall songbooks, and so on, all aimed squarely at the burgeoning mass market. Fascinating today for the unique light it shines on the lives of the ordinary people of the age, street literature has long been neglected as a historical resource, and this collection of essays is the first general book on the trade for over forty years.
Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America
Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America write by David Atkinson. This book was released on 2016-04-01. Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers and reached the populace in printed form. Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature’s interaction with, and influence on, oral traditions.
Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century write by Heather Bozant Witcher. This book was released on 2022-03-17. Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining social and material dimensions of collaboration, this book reveals the diverse networks of nineteenth-century literary exchange.
Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century write by Juliet Shields. This book was released on 2021-07-29. Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introducing the neglected tradition of Scottish women's writing to readers who may already be familiar with English Victorian realism or the historical romances of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, this book corrects male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel by demonstrating how women appropriated the masculine genre of romance.
Lyrical Strains
Lyrical Strains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lyrical Strains write by Elissa Zellinger. This book was released on 2020-10-07. Lyrical Strains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Elissa Zellinger analyzes both political philosophy and poetic theory in order to chronicle the consolidation of the modern lyric and the liberal subject across the long nineteenth century. In the nineteenth-century United States, both liberalism and lyric sought self-definition by practicing techniques of exclusion. Liberalism was a political philosophy whose supposed universals were limited to white men and created by omitting women, the enslaved, and Native peoples. The conventions of poetic reception only redoubled the sense that liberal selfhood defined its boundaries by refusing raced and gendered others. Yet Zellinger argues that it is precisely the poetics of the excluded that offer insights into the dynamic processes that came to form the modern liberal and lyric subjects. She examines poets—Frances Sargent Osgood, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and E. Pauline Johnson—whose work uses lyric practices to contest the very assumptions about selfhood responsible for denying them the political and social freedoms enjoyed by full liberal subjects. In its consideration of politics and poetics, this project offers a new approach to genre and gender that will help shape the field of nineteenth-century American literary studies.
