Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland

About the author

Ruth Perry is past President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and an internationally acclaimed authority on eighteenth-century British literature and culture. She has written on canonical figures such as Pope, Sterne, Richardson, Austen, Hawthorne as well as contemporary women writers such as Grace Paley and Mary Gordon. She is the Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at MIT and the founding director of Women Studies at MIT as well as the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies in Boston. In 2022, the Eighteenth-Century Society for Scottish Studies honored her with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Her scholarship has been recognized by fellowships from the Bunting Institute, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEH, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Edinburgh.

Summary

This is a scholarly biography of Anna Gordon Brown, posthumously known as Mrs Brown of Falkland, an eighteenth-century Scottish ballad collector. This pioneering new study takes us to the overlapping worlds of vernacular music during its rediscovery at the dawn of the Romantic Revival.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Perry
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.2025
• EAN: 9780198939092
• ISBN: 978-0-19-893909-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Modern / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599