Author: William BannermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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The Aberdeen Worthies
Author: William BannermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberdeen (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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The Press and the People
Author: Adam FoxPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192508814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
The Press and the People is the first full-length study of cheap print in early modern Scotland. It traces the production and distribution of ephemeral publications from the nation's first presses in the early sixteenth century through to the age of Burns in the late eighteenth. It explores the development of the Scottish book trade in general and the production of slight and popular texts in particular. Focusing on the means by which these works reached a wide audience, it illuminates the nature of their circulation in both urban and rural contexts. Specific chapters examine single-sheet imprints such as ballads and gallows speeches, newssheets and advertisements, as well as the little pamphlets that contained almanacs and devotional works, stories and songs. The book demonstrates just how much more of this literature was once printed than now survives and argues that Scotland had a much larger market for such material than has been appreciated. By illustrating the ways in which Scottish printers combined well-known titles from England with a distinctive repertoire of their own, The Press and the People transforms our understanding of popular literature in early modern Scotland and its contribution to British culture more widely.
Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
Author: David AtkinsonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527502759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
For centuries, street literature was the main cheap reading material of the working classes: broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, prints, engravings, and other forms of print produced specifically to suit their taste and cheap enough for even the poor to buy. Starting in the sixteenth century, but at its chaotic and flamboyant peak in the nineteenth, street literature was on sale everywhere – in urban streets and alleyways, at country fairs and markets, at major sporting events and holiday gatherings, and under the gallows at public executions. For this very reason, it was often despised and denigrated by the educated classes, but remained enduringly popular with the ordinary people. Anything and everything was grist to the printers’ mill, if it would sell. A penny could buy you a celebrity scandal, a report of a gruesome murder, the last dying speech of a condemned criminal, wonder tales, riddles and conundrums, a moral tale of religious danger and redemption, a comic tale of drunken husbands and shrewish wives, a temperance tract or an ode to beer, a satire on dandies, an alphabet or “reed-a-ma-daisy” (reading made easy) to teach your children, an illustrated chapbook of nursery rhymes, or the adventures of Robin Hood and Jack the Giant Killer. Street literature long held its own by catering directly for the ordinary people, at a price they could afford, but, by the end of the Victorian era, it was in terminal decline and was rapidly being replaced by a host of new printed materials in the shape of cheap newspapers and magazines, penny dreadful novels, music hall songbooks, and so on, all aimed squarely at the burgeoning mass market. Fascinating today for the unique light it shines on the lives of the ordinary people of the age, street literature has long been neglected as a historical resource, and this collection of essays is the first general book on the trade for over forty years.
Aberdeen University Studies
Author: Catalogue of Pamphlets in the King
Author: University of Aberdeen. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Publications of the Scottish History Society
Author: Scottish History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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A Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography
Author: Sir Arthur MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University LibraryPublisher: Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
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Scottish Family History
Author: David MoodyPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806312682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Originally published: London: B.T. Batsford, 1988.
Aberdeen, 1800-2000
Author: W. Hamish FraserPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9781862321083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
To Mark the New Millennium Aberdeen City Council has commissioned a new history of Aberdeen in two volumes: Aberdeen, 1800 to 2000 and Aberdeen before 1800.