Ballads and Broadsides In Britain, 1500-1800 / edited by Patricia Fumerton and Anita Guerrini.

Sixteen essays in five parts: Re-collecting and Re-defining ballads --Strange News - Tradition, Journalism, and Monstrosity -- The Criminal Subject - Gender, Law, and Emotion --The Matter of Print - Class, Craft, and Authorship --Border Crossings --England, Scotland, and the New World. With an introduction, bibliography and index. Figures. Six music examples.

xv, 357 p.; 24 cm.
Cloth
Language: English
ISBN: 0754662489
ISBN13: 9780754662488
UPC: 9780754662488