The broadside ballad in early modern England : moving media, tactical publics / Patricia Fumerton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fumerton, Patricia, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Material texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Broadsides--England--History.

Broadsides.

Ballads, English--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Ballads, English.

History.

Great Britain.

England.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 469 pages : illustrations, music ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]

Summary:

"A survey of the cultural aesthetics involved in the practice of making and consuming broadside ballads in the early modern period in England. The author focuses on the historical and cultural aesthetics of the ballad-as-experience and as a multimedia object. Experiential ballad aesthetics includes appreciation of the made objects as well as of the set of processes involved in their making (pressed sheets of paper, voiced narratives and dialogues, carved woodblocks of scenes and portraits, fictional identities, and collective memories, to name only a few). An experiential ballad aesthetic also requires understanding the multimodal group of individual and collaborative roles involved in such makings (author, printer, hawker, singer, auditor, reader, collector). Experiential ballad aesthetics is, furthermore, generative and protean, capable of seemingly endless shifts and renewals. Constantly moving with the political and social times, it thrives and can be appreciated today much as in early modern England: as text, song, art, and cultural record"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Critical and Theoretical Parts: Moving, Assemblage, Publics, and Tactics

pt. I ASSEMBLING BY DISASSEMBLING: ARCHIVES, DATABASES, AND BALLAD BITS

ch. 2 Accessing the Artifact, Now and Then

ch. 3 Random Tactical Hits

pt. II REMEMBERING BY DISMEMBERING: BLACK LETTER, CALLIGRAPHY, AND PRINT HISTORY

ch. 4 The Network of Black-Letter Broadside Ballad Collectors

ch. 5 The Passing Present of Black Letter and Calligraphy

pt. III FROM NETWORKS TO PUBLICS: SAMUEL PEPYS

ch. 6 Pepys and the Making of Gendered Publics

ch. 7 Pepys and the Making of Political Publics

pt. IV DIACHRONIC AND SYNCHRONIC BALLAD PUBLICS: CROSSING SOCIETY, HISTORY, AND SPACE

ch. 8 The Moving Violations of "The Lady and the Blackamoor".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780812252316

0812252314

OCLC:

1141029735