Political broadside ballads of seventeenth century England : a critical bibliography (Introduction only) / Angela McShane.
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TextPublication details: Pickering and Chatto, 2011.Edition: Adapted by the authorDescription: 31 p. ; 30 cmSubject(s): Summary: Social and cultural historians and literary scholars have made substantial use of more generic and less time-sensitive broadside ballads, for example on crime or gender relations, while ballads on 'affairs of state' have been largely eschewed by scholars of popular political history, despite the growing availability of ballad literature, and their great potential as a teaching and research resource. This critical bibliography seeks to make these texts more accessible by providing a systematically and rigorously researched bibliography of all recorded and published broadside ballads on affairs of state between the outbreak of the Bishops Wars in 1639 to the Glorious Revolution in 1689. Arranged chronologically, the bibliography locates, dates and fully indexes more than 1050 titles - c. 3100 ballad sheets - drawn from around 10,000 extant sheets held in libraries in the UK and US. The entries provide reliable earliest possible publication dates (in many cases for the first time). Library and shelf mark locations for all publicly available editions and copies of each title, in UK and US libraries are given and contextualising notes are provided throughout. There are indices for authors, publishers and subjects, including all names of people and places mentioned in the texts.
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Introduction from an adapted critical bibliography for: Political World of the Broadside Ballad Monograph Project.
Social and cultural historians and literary scholars have made substantial use of more generic and less time-sensitive broadside ballads, for example on crime or gender relations, while ballads on 'affairs of state' have been largely eschewed by scholars of popular political history, despite the growing availability of ballad literature, and their great potential as a teaching and research resource. This critical bibliography seeks to make these texts more accessible by providing a systematically and rigorously researched bibliography of all recorded and published broadside ballads on affairs of state between the outbreak of the Bishops Wars in 1639 to the Glorious Revolution in 1689. Arranged chronologically, the bibliography locates, dates and fully indexes more than 1050 titles - c. 3100 ballad sheets - drawn from around 10,000 extant sheets held in libraries in the UK and US. The entries provide reliable earliest possible publication dates (in many cases for the first time). Library and shelf mark locations for all publicly available editions and copies of each title, in UK and US libraries are given and contextualising notes are provided throughout. There are indices for authors, publishers and subjects, including all names of people and places mentioned in the texts.
Adapted from: Political World of the Broadside Ballad Monograph Project