Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375067364
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.
The Spirit of the Nation - Ballads and Songs
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375067364
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.
The spirit of the nation, ballads and songs, with music
Author: SpiritThe Spirit of the Nation
Author: Thomas Osborne DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Spirit of The Nation
Author: The Writers of The Nation NewspaperPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385073871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Telling Histories
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004483772
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The proliferation of historical novels with more or less overt metafictional traits in the late seventies and eighties in Britain is a particularly arresting phenomenon at a time when historians are openly questioning the validity of the traditional concept of history understood as a scientific search for knowledge. This apparent contradiction justifies the attempt made by the contributors of this volume to analize the relationship between history and literature in English. The reader will find four preliminary essays on The End of the Classical Period establishing the characteristics of the appropriation of history since the appearance of Sir Walter Scott's historical romances with special emphasis on the Victorian novel (Dickens, Eliot, Mrs Humphry Ward), the Irish ballad and Post-Independence Indian historical fiction, as a necessary preface to the main group of essays on The Postmodernist Era devoted to establishing the common as well as the individually distinctive traits in the writings of some of the most accomplished contemporary writers in English: the more centered British novelists Margaret Drabble, Julian Barnes and William Golding as well as the more ex-centric Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson plus the playwright Caryl Churchill, and the black American novelist David Bradley.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: National Ballad and Song
Author: John Stephen FarmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Thomas Osborne Davis
Author: Johannes SchillerThe American Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
The Late Victorian Folksong Revival
Author: E. David GregoryPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810869888
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E. David Gregory provides a reliable and comprehensive history of the birth and early development of the first English folksong revival. Continuing where Victorian Songhunters, his first book, left off, Gregory systematically explores what the Late Victorian folksong collectors discovered in the field and what they published for posterity, identifying differences between the songs noted from oral tradition and those published in print. In doing so, he determines the extent to which the collectors distorted what they found when publishing the results of their research in an era when some folksong texts were deemed unsuitable for "polite ears." The book provides a reliable overall survey of the birth of a movement, tracing the genesis and development of the first English folksong revival. It discusses the work of more than a dozen song-collectors, focusing in particular on three key figures: the pioneer folklorist in the English west country, Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould; Frank Kidson, who greatly increased the known corpus of Yorkshire song; and Lucy Broadwood, who collected mainly in the counties of Sussex and Surrey, and with Kidson and others, was instrumental in founding the Folk Song Society in the late 1890s. The book includes copious examples of the song tunes and texts collected, including transcriptions of nearly 300 traditional ballads, broadside ballads, folk lyrics, occupational songs, carols, shanties, and "national songs," demonstrating the abundance and high quality of the songs recovered by these early collectors.