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The Ballad and its Pasts - Literary Histories and the Play of Memory (Hardcover)
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The Ballad and its Pasts - Literary Histories and the Play of Memory (Hardcover)
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A new approach to the mysterious ballads, and their relationship
with the past. Katharine Briggs Award 2018: Runner Up The ballad
genre, and its material, are frequently backward-looking in terms
of subject and style: it is ideally suited to the reimagining of
past events, both real and fictional. This volume addresses the
past of the ballad and the past in the ballad. It challenges
existing scholarship by embracing discontinuity rather than
continuity, seeing the ballad as belonging to a culture of cheap
printand imaginative literature rather than the rarefied construct
of a mythical "folk". It finds a conscious antiquarianism and
medievalism reinterpreting the genre at different stages of its
literary history, at the same time as theballad itself is
continually adapting to the needs of readers, singers, and
audience. Chapters cover the few remaining examples of the medieval
ballad, and Thomas Percy's medievalism; David Mallet's "William and
Margaret" andthe beginnings of the gothic mode early in the
eighteenth century; ballads of "Sir James the Rose" and the culture
of cheap print in Scotland from the late eighteenth through to the
early twentieth century; shipwreck ballads on the loss of the
Ramillies and "Sir Patrick Spens", and the reimagining of the past
in the present, with a diversion into Coleridge's "Dejection: An
Ode"; murder ballads, special providence, and the history of
mentalities from earlymodern to Victorian times. DAVID ATKINSON is
Honorary Research Fellow at the Elphinstone Institute, University
of Aberdeen.
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