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Ballads, Songs and Snatches - The Appropriation of Folk Song and Popular Culture in British 19th-Century Realist Prose (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Ballads, Songs and Snatches - The Appropriation of Folk Song and Popular Culture in British 19th-Century Realist Prose (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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As a book on allusion, this has interest for both the traditional
literary or cultural historian and for the modern student of
textuality and readership positions. It focuses on allusion to
folksong, and, more tangentially, to popular culture, areas which
have so far been slighted by literary critics. In the nineteenth
century many authors attempted to mediate the culture(s) of the
working classes for the enjoyment of their predominantly
middle-class audiences. In so doing they took songs out of their
original social and musical contexts and employed a variety of
strategies which - consciously or unconsciously - romanticised,
falsified or denigrated what the novels or stories claimed to
represent. In addition, some writers who were well-informed about
the cultures they described used allusion to song as a covert
system of reference to topics such as sexuality and the criticism
of class and gender relations which it was difficult to discuss
directly.
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