Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New CriticismUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2013 M04 23 - 304 pages The humble ballad, defined in 1728 as "a song commonly sung up and down the streets," was widely used in elite literature in the eighteenth century and beyond. Authors ranging from John Gay to William Blake to Felicia Hemans incorporated the seemingly incongruous genre of the ballad into their work. Ballads were central to the Scottish Enlightenment's theorization of culture and nationality, to Shakespeare's canonization in the eighteenth century, and to the New Criticism's most influential work, Understanding Poetry. Just how and why did the ballad appeal to so many authors from the Restoration period to the end of the Romantic era and into the twentieth century? |
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... beggar's opera : ballad, lyric, and the semiautonomy of culture — Scots songs in the Scottish Enlightenment : pastoral, progress, and the lyric split in Allan Ramsay, John Home, and Robert Burns — Addressing the problem of a lyric ...
... Beggar's Opera: Ballads, Lyric, and the Semiautonomy of Culture 15 Scots Songs in the Scottish Enlightenment: Pastoral, Progress, and the Lyric Split in Allan Ramsay, John Home, and Robert Burns 44 Addressing the Problem of a Lyric ...
... opera in The Beggar's Opera (Chapter 1), Allan Ramsay's carving out a sphere for the Scottish literati outside of an Anglocentric state and the Scottish Presbyterian Church (Chapter 2), and David Garrick's replacement of the royal ...
... Beggar's. Opera: Ballads,. Lyric,. and. the. Semiautonomy. of. Culture. To understand the work ballads do in The Beggar's Opera, it is best to approach them from the oblique angle provided by the conclusion. As Macheath moves toward the ...
... Beggar's idea of poetic justice is vitiated by the absurd rules of the opera, the same fate befalls Gay's attempt at satire. Faced with a threat by “commercial culture” to their tenuous purchase on cultural capital, authors like Gay (an ...
Contents
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Pastoral Progress and the Lyric Split in Allan Ramsay John Home and Robert Burns | 44 |
Collecting Shakespeares SongsShakespeare as Song Collector | 97 |
4 Ballads and the Problem of Lyric Violence in Blake and Wordsworth | 136 |
Child Ballads Childrens Ballads and the New Criticism | 185 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 293 |
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Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the ... Steve Newman No preview available - 2007 |