Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction: straws in the wind, Patricia Fumerton and Anita Guerrini; Part I Re-Collecting and Re-Defining Ballads: Remembering by dismembering: databases, archiving, and the recollection of 17th-century broadside ballads, Patricia Fumerton; 'The art of printing was fatal': print commerce and the idea of oral tradition in long 18th-century ballad discourse, Paula McDowell; Child's ballads and the broadside conundrum, Mary Ellen Brown. Part II Strange News: Tradition, Journalism, and Monstrosity: Journalism vs. tradition in the early English ballads of the murdered sweetheart, Thomas Pettit; Do you take this hog-faced woman to be your wedded wife?, Tassie Gniady; Advertising monstrosity: broadsides and human exhibition in early 18th-century London, Anita Guerrini. Part III The Criminal Subject: Gender, Law, and Emotion: 'And I my vowe did keepe': oath making, subjectivity and husband murder in 'murderous wife' ballads, Simone Chess; Tracking the petty traitor across genres, Frances E. Dolan; Ballads and the emotional life of crime, Joy Wiltenberg. Part IV The Matter of Print: Class, Craft, and Authorship: 'The maiden's bloody garland': Thomas Warton and the elite appropriation of popular song, Steve Newman; 'Ne sutor ultra crepidam': political cobblers and broadside ballads in late 17th-century England, Angela McShane; William Hogarth's pregnant ballad sellers and the engraver's matrix, Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell. Part V Border Crossings: England, Scotland, and the New World: War and the media in Border minstrelsy: The Ballad of Chevy Chase, Ruth Perry; Heroines gritty and tender, printed and oral, late-breaking and traditional: revisiting the Anglo-American female warrior, Dianne Dugaw; Music and Indians in John Gay's Polly, Noelle Chao; Afterword: ballad futures, Bruce R. Smith; Selected bibliography; Index.