1st Edition
Ballads, Songs and Snatches The Appropriation of Folk Song and Popular Culture in British 19th-Century Realist Prose
By C.M. Jackson-Houlston
Copyright 1999
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Scott: Scott’s audiences, knowledge and inclinations; Scott and false intertexts; Scott's use of allusion to traditional song; Scott’s Contemporaries: Galt and Hogg; Mitford; Scott’s Legacy, and Three Muscular Christians: Mid-Nineteenth-century novelists; Borrow; Kingsley; Hughes; Gaskell; Dickens and Thackeray: Some new contexts; Dickens: a withdrawal from narrative commitment; Thackeray, popular song and gender politics; Jefferies; Hardy: Hardy’s background and musical milieux; Church bands; Traditional dance and song; Conclusion; Appendices: The song sequence in Redgauntlet; Hardy's collection of 'Country Songs of 1820 Onwards’; Bibliography; Index.
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C.M. Jackson-Houlston
