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Street literature of the long nineteenth century : producers, sellers, consumers / edited by David Atkinson and Steve Roud.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.Description: 373 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781443894999
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Contents:
Introduction / David Atkinson and Steve Roud -- Street literature in England at the end of the long eighteenth century / David Stoker -- 'Stirring times': contemporary accounts of nineteenth-century street balladry / Isabel Corfe -- Street ballad sellers in the nineteenth century / Vic Gammon -- The decline and fall of the Scottish chapbook / Iain Beavan -- 'In Merthyr on a Saturday night': the ballads and balladeers of Glamorgan / E. Wyn James -- The development of the children's chapbook in London / Jonathan Cooper -- 'The library of the Scottish peasantry': street literature in Aberdeen in 1828 / David Atkinson -- Squibs, songs, addresses, and speeches: election ephemera in nineteenth-century Devon / Ian Maxted -- 'My days must end on a dismal tree': Constance Kent and murder in the 1860s / David Atkinson -- 'All things are done by steam': the advent of steam power through broadside ballads / Colin Bargery -- A late Aberdeenshire chapbook printer / David Atkinson.

Introduction / David Atkinson and Steve Roud -- Street literature in England at the end of the long eighteenth century / David Stoker -- 'Stirring times': contemporary accounts of nineteenth-century street balladry / Isabel Corfe -- Street ballad sellers in the nineteenth century / Vic Gammon -- The decline and fall of the Scottish chapbook / Iain Beavan -- 'In Merthyr on a Saturday night': the ballads and balladeers of Glamorgan / E. Wyn James -- The development of the children's chapbook in London / Jonathan Cooper -- 'The library of the Scottish peasantry': street literature in Aberdeen in 1828 / David Atkinson -- Squibs, songs, addresses, and speeches: election ephemera in nineteenth-century Devon / Ian Maxted -- 'My days must end on a dismal tree': Constance Kent and murder in the 1860s / David Atkinson -- 'All things are done by steam': the advent of steam power through broadside ballads / Colin Bargery -- A late Aberdeenshire chapbook printer / David Atkinson.

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