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Ballads, songs, and snatches : the appropriation of folk song and popular culture in British nineteenth-century realist prose / C.M. Jackson-Houlston.
Van Pelt Library PR868.F64 J33 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson-Houlston, C. M. (Caroline Mary), 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Literature and folklore--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Literature and folklore.
- Folk songs, English--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Folk songs, English.
- Ballads, English--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Ballads, English.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Popular culture in literature.
- Folk songs in literature.
- Folklore in literature.
- Realism in literature.
- Intertextuality.
- Allusions.
- Physical Description:
- 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, 1999.
- Contents:
- 2 Scott 13
- Scott's audiences, knowledge and inclinations 14
- Scott and false intertexts 23
- Scott's use of allusion to traditional song 32
- 3 Scott's Contemporaries 51
- Galt and Hogg 51
- Mitford 56
- 4 Scott's Legacy, and Three Muscular Christians 62
- Mid Nineteenth-century Novelists 62
- Borrow 68
- Kingsley 74
- Hughes 81
- 5 Gaskell 91
- 6 Dickens and Thackeray 111
- Some new contexts 111
- Dickens: a withdrawal from narrative commitment 112
- Thackeray, popular song and gender politics 117
- 7 Jefferies 126
- 8 Hardy 140
- Hardy's background and musical milieux 140
- Church bands 147
- Traditional dance and song 150
- 1 The song sequence in Redgauntlet 179
- 2 Hardy's collection of 'Country Songs of 1820 Onwards' 182.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1840142960
- OCLC:
- 39785236
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