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Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
- David Atkinson (editor)
- Steve Roud (editor)
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| Title | Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century |
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| Contributor | David Atkinson (editor) |
| Steve Roud (editor) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0347 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0347 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Copyright | David Atkinson; Steve Roud; |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Publication place | Cambridge, UK |
| Published on | 2023-09-04 |
| ISBN | 978-1-80511-039-2 (Paperback) |
| 978-1-80511-040-8 (Hardback) | |
| 978-1-80511-041-5 (PDF) | |
| 978-1-80511-045-3 (HTML) | |
| 978-1-80511-044-6 (XML) | |
| 978-1-80511-042-2 (EPUB) | |
| Short abstract | 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. |
| Long abstract | 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. |
| Print length | 396 pages (viii+388) |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Dimensions | 156 x 28 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 1.1" x 9.21" (Paperback) |
| 156 x 30 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 1.18" x 9.21" (Hardback) | |
| Weight | 761g | 26.84oz (Paperback) |
| 926g | 32.66oz (Hardback) | |
| Media | 32 illustrations |
| OCLC Number | 1399167380 |
| LCCN | 2022361431 |
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Contents
1. Introduction
(pp. 1–26)- David Atkinson
- Steve Roud
- David Atkinson
- Sheila O’Connell
4. Popular Print in a Regional Capital: Street Literature and Public Controversy in Norwich, 1701–1800
(pp. 77–112)- David Stoker
- Barry McKay
- David Atkinson
7. Slip Songs and Engraved Song Sheets
(pp. 165–194)- David Stoker
- Oskar Cox Jensen
9. Story Books, Godly Books, Ballads, and Song Books: The Chapbook in Scotland, 1740–1820
(pp. 219–258)- Iain Beavan
10. Alphabet Pies, Animal Quacks, and Ugly Sisters: John Evans and the Growth of Cheap Books for Children
(pp. 259–320)- Jonathan Cooper
11. Street Literature and Cheap Fiction
(pp. 321–346)- David Atkinson
12. Afterword
(pp. 347–354)- David Atkinson
- Steve Roud
Contributors
David Atkinson
(editor)Honorary Research Fellow at the Elphinstone Institute at University of Aberdeen
David Atkinson is the author of The English Traditional Ballad (2002), The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts (2014), and The Ballad and its Pasts: Literary Histories and the Play of Memory (2018). With Steve Roud he has co-edited Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America (2014), Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century (2017), Cheap Print and the People: European Perspectives on Popular Literature (2019), Street Literature and the Circulation of Songs (2019), and Printers, Pedlars, Sailors, Nuns: Aspects of Street Literature (2020). He has published articles on cheap print in The Library, Publishing History, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society. He is the editor of Folk Music Journal, Honorary Research Fellow at the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, and Executive Secretary of the Kommission für Volksdichtung (Ballad Commission).
Steve Roud
(editor)Steve Roud is a retired Local Studies librarian and now a freelance writer, researcher, and indexer specializing in the history of traditional song and street literature. He is the compiler of the online Folk Song Index and Broadside Index databases, and his Folk Song in England was published by Faber in 2017. Most recently, he has co-edited The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance (2021). With David Atkinson he has co-edited Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America (2014), Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century (2017), Cheap Print and the People: European Perspectives on Popular Literature (2019), Street Literature and the Circulation of Songs (2019), and Printers, Pedlars, Sailors, Nuns: Aspects of Street Literature (2020).
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