Ballads, Songs and Snatches - The Appropriation of Folk Song Popular Culture in British 19th

As a book on allusion, this has interest for both the traditional literary or cultural historian and for the modern student of textuality and readership positions.

List of contents

Contents: Introduction; Scott: Scott's audiences, knowledge and inclinations; Scott and false intertexts; Scott's use of allusion to traditional song; Scott's Contemporaries: Galt and Hogg; Mitford; Scott's Legacy, and Three Muscular Christians: Mid-Nineteenth-century novelists; Borrow; Kingsley; Hughes; Gaskell; Dickens and Thackeray: Some new contexts; Dickens: a withdrawal from narrative commitment; Thackeray, popular song and gender politics; Jefferies; Hardy: Hardy's background and musical milieux; Church bands; Traditional dance and song; Conclusion; Appendices: The song sequence in Redgauntlet; Hardy's collection of 'Country Songs of 1820 Onwards'; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

C.M. Jackson-Houlston

Summary

As a book on allusion, this has interest for both the traditional literary or cultural historian and for the modern student of textuality and readership positions.

Product details

• Authors: Jackson Houlston, C M Jackson-Houlston, C M (Oxford Brookes University UK) Jackson-Houlston, C. M. Jackson-Houlston, C.M. Jackson-Houlston, C.m. (Oxford Brookes University Jackson-Houlston
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2016
• EAN: 9781138272064
• ISBN: 978-1-138-27206-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: The Nineteenth Century Series; Nineteenth Century; The Nineteenth Century Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general