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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... role in reflecting on civil society, past and present, has recently attracted some healthy attention. Clifford Siskin argues that identifying “lyric with personal, subjective feeling” misses “the point. . . . Introduction 5.
... role of lyric in Siskin's historiographical account and Ianowitz's dialogue between “the liberal self ” and “popular sovereignty,” we need to start even earlier than Siskin's beginning point of 1700. Admittedly, this claim runs counter ...
... role in forming and maintaining the canon by considering the importance of gender in the Scottish Enlightenment's imagination of song, William Wordsworth's struggles with the abject role of women in ballads, and the lack of respect ...
... roles and sexuality in the nation. For the literati of the Scottish Enlightenment, the martial heroism that limns the ... role of print in our epigraphs from both Addison and Coleridge. To quote The Win~ ter's Tale, a text I will be ...
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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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