Child's unfinished masterpiece : the English and Scottish popular ballads /
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Brown, Mary Ellen
Child's unfinished masterpiece : the English and Scottish popular ballads / Mary Ellen Brown. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2011. - xi, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prelude : the project -- The man; Francis James Child -- The English and Scottish popular ballads -- The description -- The history of the book; Child's great temptation -- Child's gallant army of auxiliaries -- The transatlantic collaborators -- William Macmath; partner in the ballad cause -- George Lyman Kittredge; literary executor extraordinaire -- Postlude : Child's ballad concept redux -- Appendix A. Wanted, old ballads -- Appendix B. Invitation -- Appendix C. Prospectus -- Appendix D. Rejected pieces.
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