Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism

Steve Newman

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2007

Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon

The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism

Steve Newman

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202939

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Compelling and insightful, Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon makes an important contribution to our understanding of the ballad and its long-ranging impact on the institution of literature.

Author / Editor information

Steve Newman teaches English at Temple University.

Reviews

"Elegant and original in its formulations, Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon provides a new starting place for thinking about the presence and meanings of the ballad within modern poetics."—Anne Janowitz, Queen Mary, University of London

"A timely contribution to the growing area of interest in popular culture, particularly as it affects the long eighteenth century."—Murray Pittock, University of Manchester

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Why There's No Poetic Justice in The Beggar's Opera: Ballads, Lyric, and the Semiautonomy of Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2. Scots Songs in the Scottish Enlightenment: Pastoral, Progress, and the Lyric Split in Allan Ramsay, John Home, and Robert Burns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Chapter 3. Addressing the Problem of a Lyric History: Collecting Shakespeare's Songs/ Shakespeare as Song Collector Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Chapter 4. Ballads and the Problem of Lyric Violence in Blake and Wordsworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Chapter 5. Reading as Remembering and the Subject of Lyric: Child Ballads, Children's Ballads, and the New Criticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 3 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 23, 2013
ISBN: 9780812202939