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Originally published in 1995. This book's collection of key essays
presents a coherent overview of touchstone statements and issues in
the study of Anglo-American popular ballad traditions and suggests
ways this panoramic view affords us a look at Euro-American
scholarship's questions, concerns and methods. The study of ballads
in English began early in the eighteenth century with Joseph
Addison's discussions which marked the onset of an aesthetic and
scholarly interest in popular traditions. Therefore the collection
begins with him and then chronologically includes scholars whose
views mark pivotal moments which taken together tell a story that
does not emerge through an examination of the ballads themselves.
The book addresses debates in tradition, orality, performance and
community as well as national genealogies and connections to
contexts. Each selected piece is pre-empted by an introductory
section on its importance and relevance.
These memoirs all come from women forced to live lives of
impropriety, often after ill-treatment from unscrupulous men. Their
tales of survival in the face of extreme hardship and privations
make inspirational and compelling reading.
These memoirs all come from women forced to live lives of
impropriety, often after ill-treatment from unscrupulous men. Their
tales of survival in the face of extreme hardship and privations
make inspirational and compelling reading.
These memoirs all come from women forced to live lives of
impropriety, often after ill-treatment from unscrupulous men. Their
tales of survival in the face of extreme hardship and privations
make inspirational and compelling reading.
These memoirs all come from women forced to live lives of
impropriety, often after ill-treatment from unscrupulous men. Their
tales of survival in the face of extreme hardship and privations
make inspirational and compelling reading.
These memoirs all come from women forced to live lives of
impropriety, often after ill-treatment from unscrupulous men. Their
tales of survival in the face of extreme hardship and privations
make inspirational and compelling reading.
These memoirs all come from women forced to live lives of
impropriety, often after ill-treatment from unscrupulous men. Their
tales of survival in the face of extreme hardship and privations
make inspirational and compelling reading.
Originally published in 1995. This book's collection of key essays
presents a coherent overview of touchstone statements and issues in
the study of Anglo-American popular ballad traditions and suggests
ways this panoramic view affords us a look at Euro-American
scholarship's questions, concerns and methods. The study of ballads
in English began early in the eighteenth century with Joseph
Addison's discussions which marked the onset of an aesthetic and
scholarly interest in popular traditions. Therefore the collection
begins with him and then chronologically includes scholars whose
views mark pivotal moments which taken together tell a story that
does not emerge through an examination of the ballads themselves.
The book addresses debates in tradition, orality, performance and
community as well as national genealogies and connections to
contexts. Each selected piece is pre-empted by an introductory
section on its importance and relevance.
Masquerading as a man, seeking adventure, going to war or to sea
for love and glory, the transvestite heroine flourished in all
kinds of literature, especially ballads, from the Renaissance to
the Victorian age. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850
identifies this heroine and her significance as a figure in
folklore, and as a representative of popular culture, prompting
important reevaluations of gender and sexuality. Dugaw has
uncovered a fascination with women cross-dressers in the popular
literature of early modern Europe and America. Surveying a wide
range of Anglo-American texts from popular ballads and chapbook
life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic
literature, she demonstrates the extent to which gender and
sexuality are enacted as constructs of history.
In this book the author documents the flourishing of the female
warrior heroine in lower-class popular songs of the 17th and 18th
centuries. In well over a hundred ballads during this period, the
heroine masquerades as a man, going to war for love and glory. The
author examines the ballads, their composition, sale and
performance, and relates the warrior women to a wide range of
contemporary contexts. These include everyday life for the
lower-class population of the period (especially for women), a wide
array of literary forms using the motif of disguised women and
raising issues relating to gender and masquerading, and the western
heroic ideal with its sexual and martial implications. This
original study makes valuable connections between popular and
polite literary forms, too often segregated in academic studies.
From a stimulating feminist persective, Professor Dugaw addresses
some timely and contentious issues in this study of refreshingly
new source material.
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