A Bibliography of Welsh Ballads Printed in the 18th Century
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Page : 302 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Ballads, Welsh
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Page : 302 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Ballads, Welsh
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Author : Ffion Mair Jones
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0708324622
Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution provides for the first time an edition, with parallel English translations, of Welsh-language ballads composed in reaction to the momentous events of the Revolution in France and the two decades of war which followed. Ballad writers were first spurred to respond in 1793, when the French monarchs were executed, France declared war upon Britain, and paranoia regarding the possible threat of internal revolt in Britain reached a crisis point. As the decade proceeded, ballads were sung in thanks for the victory of British forces and local people against an invasion of Pembrokeshire by French troops, and in reaction to key naval battles and to the extensive mobilization of militia and volunteer forces. Scholars working on the British response to the Revolution have showed increasing interest in exploring the contents of ballads and songs. The ballad in particular is seen as a vital source of information, since it represents ordinary people's awareness of the developments of the period. Balladry is also subject to continued research within Welsh scholarship, and this volume, with its focus on a clearly defined historical period and its revelation of new voices within the canon of Welsh ballad writers, will drive this field of study forwards. Regional reactions to the Revolution within the British Isles are also now seen as crucially important, but Wales, partly because of the inaccessibility of material composed in the Welsh language, has repeatedly been omitted from the general picture. This volume aids in rectifying this situation, ensuring (by use of translation, copious contextualizing notes, and a lengthy introduction) that both the ballad genre and Welsh reactions receive the attention they deserve from the wider scholarly community.
Author : John Graham
Publisher : London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner ; New York : E.P. Dutton
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Music
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Author : Mary-Ann Constantine
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Ballads
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Page : 780 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Wales
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Author : Dept. of Special Collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402016868
The Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries aims at recording articles of scholarly value which relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic social and cultural environment, involved in its production, distribution, conservation and description.
Author : David Atkinson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1527502759
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.
Author : James Clegg
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Page : 704 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Bibliographical literature
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Author : James Clegg
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Page : 714 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Bibliography
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Author : Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England)
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Page : 628 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Wales
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