Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century / David Atkinson, Stephen Roud.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkinson, David, author.

Roud, Stephen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2023.

Summary:

"This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature - ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints - in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature. The breadth and depth of the contributions give a much fuller and more nuanced picture of what was being widely published and read during this period than has previously been available. It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century popular culture and literature, print history and the book trade, ballad and folk studies, children's literature, and social history."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Intro

List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction

David Atkinson and Steve Roud

2. Charles and Sarah Bates and the Transition from Black-Letter

David Atkinson

3. Pictures on the Street: Cheap Pictorial Prints in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Sheila O'Connell

4. Popular Print in a Regional Capital: Street Literature and Public Controversy in Norwich, 1701-1800

David Stoker

5. Anthony Soulby, Chapbook Printer of Penrith (1740-1816)

Barry McKay

6. Chapmen's Books Printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks (1757-61)

David Atkinson 7. Slip Songs and Engraved Song Sheets

8. 'The Arethusa': Slip Songs and the Mainstream Canon

Oskar Cox Jensen

9. Story Books, Godly Books, Ballads, and Song Books: The Chapbook in Scotland, 1740-1820

Iain Beavan

10. Alphabet Pies, Animal Quacks, and Ugly Sisters: John Evans and the Growth of Cheap Books for Children

Jonathan Cooper

11. Street Literature and Cheap Fiction

12. Afterword

Select Bibliography.

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