Author: James Orchard Halliwell-PhillippsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chapbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A Catalogue of Chap-books, Garlands, and Popular Histories
Author: James Orchard Halliwell-PhillippsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chapbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A catalogue or chap-books, garlands and popular histories, in the possession of J. O. H.
Author: afterwards HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS HALLIWELL (James Orchard)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A Register of Bibliographies of the English Language and Literature
Author: Clark Sutherland NorthupPublisher:
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Cornell Studies in English
Author: The Legend of Guy of Warwick
Author: Velma Bourgeois RichmondPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000525570
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
First published in 1996. This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres, manuscript/book production, and cultural, political, and religious emphases by examining one of the most long lived popular legends in England. Guy of Warwick became part of history when he was named in chronicles and heraldic rolls. The power of the Earls of Warwick, especially Richard de Beauchamp, inspired the spread of the legend, but Guy's highest fame came in the Renaissance as one of the Nine Worthies. Widely praised in texts and allusions, Guy's feats were sung in ballads and celebrated on the stage in England and France. The first Anglo-Norman romance of Gui de Warewic, a Saxon hero of the tenth century was written in the early 13th century; the latest retellings of the legend are contemporary. Examples of Guy's legend can be found in two English translations that survived the Middle Ages, a new French prose romance, a didactic tale in the Gesta Romanorum, and late medieval versions in Celtic, German, and Catalan, as well as English. Guy remained a favorite Edwardian children's story and was featured in the Warwick Pageant, an historical extravaganza of 1906. The patriotism of World War II sparked a resurgence of interest that produced several new versions, mostly folkloric.
The Best Books
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
Victorian Songhunters
Author: E. David GregoryPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 1461674174
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Victorian Songhunters is a pioneering history of the rediscovery of vernacular song—street songs that have entered oral tradition and have been passed from generation to generation—in England during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. In the nineteenth century there were four main types of vernacular song: ballads, folk lyrics, occupational songs, and national songs. The discovery, collecting, editing, and publishing of all four varieties are examined in the book, and over seventy-five selected examples are given for illustrative purposes. Key concepts, such as traditional balladry, broadside balladry, folksong, and national song, are analyzed, as well as the complicated relationship between print and oral tradition and the different methodological approaches to ballad and song editing. Organized chronologically, Victorian Songhunters sketches the history of English song collecting from its beginnings in the mid-seventeenth century; focuses on the work of important individual collectors and editors, such as William Chappell, Francis J. Child, and John Broadwood; examines the growth of regional collecting in various counties throughout England; and demonstrates the considerable efforts of two important Victorian institutions, the Percy Society and its successor, the Ballad Society. The appendixes contain discussions on interpreting songs, an assessment of relevant secondary sources, and a bibliography and alphabetical song list. Author E. David Gregory provides a solid foundation for the scholarly study of balladry and folksong, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Victorian intellectual and cultural life.
Popular Literature
Author: Victor E. NeuburgPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136894349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
First Published in 1977. This book defines popular literature, and traces its development in England from the beginnings of printing to the year 1897, and provides a critical survey of sources available for its study.
Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
A Bibliography of Mythology and Folklore
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description