This panoramic overview shows how study of ballads marked the onset of an aesthetic & scholarly interest in popular culture. These touchstone essays begin with Joseph Addison in 1711 & include scholars up to the present who highlight pivotal questions, methods, & concerns in this history of scholarship. Together they tell a story--about orality & writing, individual creativity & performance, tradition & community, as well as national genealogies & contexts--that examination of the songs alone cannot provide. Each selection is preceded by an introduction on its importance & relevance.
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These memoirs published in the 18th century feature cross-dressing women soldiers & sailors, courtesans, & women forced to live lives of risk & impropriety, often because of unscrupulous men. These accounts convey the outspoken & rarely heard voices of women writers of a past world. Their remarkable stories of ingenuity, courage, & survival in the face of hardship make compelling & surprising reading. Each narrative is preceded by an introduction outlining the context, importance, & relevance. https://www.routledge.com/Memoirs-of-Scandalous-Women/Dugaw/p/book/9781851968763 A Volume in the Series |