The common touch. Volume II : popular literature from 1660 to the mid-eighteenth century / Paul A. Scanlon and Adrian Roscoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scanlon, Paul A., author.

Roscoe, Adrian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

Beginning where volume one of The Common Touch leaves off, selections of English popular literature from the Restoration to the mid-years of the eighteenth century are offered in this second and final volume. However, while interest in such traditional literary types as the ballad and chapbook continued unabated in this period, new forms began to emerge, with the popularity of journals and novels reflecting not only a more diversified readership, but also the rise of prose as a medium for public debate and entertainment. With increasing middle-class literacy filtering down to servants and apprentices, moreover, the voices of the destitute and the social outcast could be increasingly heard, marking a shift from high-born to low-born, from town to country and from men to women (and children) - culminating in the Romantic movement at the end of the century.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Garlands and Other Miscellanies

Pirates, Settlers and Slaves of the Caribbean

Restoration Farce

Chapbooks

Newgate, the Old Bailey and Tyburn

Reform

Grub Street

Augustan Burlesque

Children's Literature

Bibliography

Title Index

First-Line Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

1-4438-9348-X

OCLC:

987251228