| Description |
294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282) and index. |
| Contents |
Why there no poetic justice in The beggar's opera : ballad, lyric, and the semiautonomy of culture -- Scots songs in the Scottish Enlightenment : pastoral, progress, and the lyric split in Allan Ramsay, John Home, and Robert Burns -- Addressing the problem of a lyric history : collecting Shakespeare's songs/Shakespeare as song collector -- Ballads and the problem of lyric violence in Blake and Wordsworth -- Reading as remembering and the subject of lyric : child ballads, children's ballads, and the New Criticism. |
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Ballads, English -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
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Ballads, English. |
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Great Britain. |
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Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- History and criticism.
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Ballads, Scots. |
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Scotland. |
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Ballads in literature.
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Ballads in literature. |
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Popular culture in literature.
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Popular culture in literature. |
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Criticism -- Great Britain -- History.
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Criticism. |
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History. |
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Criticism -- United States -- History.
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United States. |
| ISBN |
9780812240092 acid-free paper |
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081224009X acid-free paper |
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