Record Nr.

UNINA9910154987203321

Autore

Jackson-Houlston C. M (Caroline Mary), <1950-, >

Titolo

Ballads, songs and snatches : the appropriation of folk song and popular culture in British nineteenth-century realist prose / / C.M. Jackson-Houlston

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-95605-1

1-138-27206-X

1-315-26177-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages)

Collana

The nineteenth century series

Disciplina

809.39357

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Literature and folklore - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Folk songs, English - Great Britain - History and criticism

Ballads, English - Great Britain - History and criticism

Popular culture in literature

Folk songs in literature

Folklore in literature

Realism in literature

Intertextuality

Allusions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1999 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Scott -- 3. Scott's contemporaries -- 4. Scott's legacy, and three muscular Christians -- 5. Gaskell -- 6. Dickens and Thackeray -- 7. Jefferies -- 8. Hardy -- 9. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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. It focuses on allusion to folksong, and, more tangentially, to popular culture, areas which have so far been slighted by literary critics. In the nineteenth century many authors attempted to mediate the culture(s) of the working classes for the enjoyment of their predominantly middle-class audiences. In so doing they took songs out

of their original social and musical contexts and employed a variety of strategies which - consciously or unconsciously - romanticised, falsified or denigrated what the novels or stories claimed to represent. In addition, some writers who were well-informed about the cultures they described used allusion to song as a covert system of reference to topics such as sexuality and the criticism of class and gender relations which it was difficult to discuss directly.