| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Garlands and Other Miscellanies; Pirates, Settlers and Slaves of the Caribbean; Restoration Farce; Chapbooks; Newgate, the Old Bailey and Tyburn; Reform; Grub Street; Augustan Burlesque; Children's Literature; Bibliography; Title Index; First-Line Index. |
| Summary |
Beginning where volume one of The Common Touch leaves off, selections of English popular literature from the Restoration to the mid-years of the eighteenth century are offered in this second and final volume. However, while interest in such traditional literary types as the ballad and chapbook continued unabated in this period, new forms began to emerge, with the popularity of journals and novels reflecting not only a more diversified readership, but also the rise of prose as a medium for public debate and entertainment. With increasing middle-class literacy filtering down to servants and appr. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature.
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English literature. |
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Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Roscoe, Adrian A., author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Scanlon, Paul A. Common touch. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 1443898708 9781443898706 (OCoLC)973894143 |
| ISBN |
9781443893480 (electronic book) |
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144389348X (electronic book) |
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9781443898706 |
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1443898708 |
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