| Description |
1 online resource (481 p.) |
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Material Texts |
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Material texts.
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| Contents |
Cover -- The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on Audio Tracks and Citation Conventions -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Critical and Theoretical Parts: Moving, Assemblage, Publics, and Tactics -- PART I ASSEMBLING BY DISASSEMBLING: ARCHIVES, DATABASES, AND BALLAD BITS -- Chapter 2. Accessing the Artifact, Now and Then -- Chapter 3. Random Tactical Hits -- PART II REMEMBERING BY DISMEMBERING: BLACK LETTER, CALLIGRAPHY, AND PRINT HISTORY -- Chapter 4. The Network of Black-Letter Broadside Ballad Collectors |
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Chapter 5. The Passing Present of Black Letter and Calligraphy -- PART III FROM NETWORKS TO PUBLICS: SAMUEL PEPYS -- Chapter 6. Pepys and the Making of Gendered Publics -- Chapter 7. Pepys and the Making of Political Publics -- PART IV DIACHRONIC AND SYNCHRONIC BALLAD PUBLICS: CROSSING SOCIETY, HISTORY, AND SPACE -- Chapter 8. The Moving Violations of "The Lady and the Blackamoor" -- Conclusion: The Limits of the Shakespearean Stage: Ballading The Winter's Tale -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Sources for Music Notations -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
Featuring more than 80 illustrations and easy access to related music files, this magisterial work argues that a ballad cannot be read as a fixed artifact, independent of its illustrations, tune, and movement across time and space |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Ballads, English -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
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Broadsides -- England -- History
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Ballads, English
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Broadsides
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England
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812297270 |
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081229727X |
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