LEADER 04890nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910817188103321 005 20240418031627.0 010 $a0-8122-0293-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202939 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418329 035 $a(OCoLC)859161484 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748750 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000980699 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11611093 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000980699 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10968849 035 $a(PQKB)10029703 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27911 035 $a(DE-B1597)449152 035 $a(OCoLC)1013964290 035 $a(OCoLC)979740705 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202939 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442211 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748750 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682411 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442211 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418329 100 $a20061109d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBallad collection, lyric, and the canon$b[electronic resource] $ethe call of the popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism /$fSteve Newman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51129-2 311 0 $a0-8122-4009-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [263]-282) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Why There's No Poetic Justice in The Beggar's Opera: Ballads, Lyric, and the Semiautonomy of Culture --$tChapter 2. Scots Songs in the Scottish Enlightenment: Pastoral, Progress, and the Lyric Split in Allan Ramsay, John Home, and Robert Burns --$tChapter 3. Addressing the Problem of a Lyric History: Collecting Shakespeare's Songs/ Shakespeare as Song Collector --$tChapter 4. Ballads and the Problem of Lyric Violence in Blake and Wordsworth --$tChapter 5. Reading as Remembering and the Subject of Lyric: Child Ballads, Children's Ballads, and the New Criticism --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aThe humble ballad, defined in 1728 as "a song commonly sung up and down the streets," was widely used in elite literature in the eighteenth century and beyond. Authors ranging from John Gay to William Blake to Felicia Hemans incorporated the seemingly incongruous genre of the ballad into their work. Ballads were central to the Scottish Enlightenment's theorization of culture and nationality, to Shakespeare's canonization in the eighteenth century, and to the New Criticism's most influential work, Understanding Poetry. Just how and why did the ballad appeal to so many authors from the Restoration period to the end of the Romantic era and into the twentieth century? Exploring the widespread breach of the wall that separated "high" and "low," Steve Newman challenges our current understanding of lyric poetry. He shows how the lesser lyric of the ballad changed lyric poetry as a whole and, in so doing, helped to transform literature from polite writing in general into the body of imaginative writing that became known as the English literary canon.For Newman, the ballad's early lack of prestige actually increased its value for elite authors after 1660. Easily circulated and understood, ballads moved literature away from the exclusive domain of the courtly, while keeping it rooted in English history and culture. Indeed, elite authors felt freer to rewrite and reshape the common speech of the ballad. Newman also shows how the ballad allowed authors to access the "common" speech of the public sphere, while avoiding what they perceived as the unpalatable qualities of that same public's increasingly avaricious commercial society. 606 $aBallads, English$zGreat Britain$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBallads, Scots$zScotland$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBallads in literature 606 $aPopular culture in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCriticism$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aCriticism$zUnited States$xHistory 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aBallads, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBallads, Scots$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBallads in literature. 615 0$aPopular culture in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCriticism$xHistory. 615 0$aCriticism$xHistory. 676 $a821/.04409 700 $aNewman$b Steve$f1970-$01703518 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817188103321 996 $aBallad collection, lyric, and the canon$94088794 997 $aUNINA