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The spoken word : oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850 / edited by Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Politics, culture, and society in early modern BritainPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2002.Description: 286 p ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0719057469 (hbk.)
  • 0719057477 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398/.0941 21
LOC classification:
  • GR141 .S66 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf -- Language, literacy and aspects of identity in early modern Wales / Richard Suggett and Eryn White -- The pulpit and the pen : clergy, orality and print in the Scottish Gaelic world / Donald Meek -- Speaking of history : conversations about the past in Restoration and eighteenth-century England / Daniel Woolf -- Vagabonds and minstrels in sixteenth-century Wales / Richard Suggett -- Reformed folklore? Cautionary tales and oral tradition in early modern England / Alexandra Walsham -- The genealogical histories of Gaelic Scotland / Martin MacGregor -- Constructing oral tradition : the origins of the concept in Enlightenment intellectual culture / Nicholas Hudson -- 'Things said or sung a thousand times' : customary society and oral culture in rural England, 1700 - 1900 / Bob Bushaway.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf -- Language, literacy and aspects of identity in early modern Wales / Richard Suggett and Eryn White -- The pulpit and the pen : clergy, orality and print in the Scottish Gaelic world / Donald Meek -- Speaking of history : conversations about the past in Restoration and eighteenth-century England / Daniel Woolf -- Vagabonds and minstrels in sixteenth-century Wales / Richard Suggett -- Reformed folklore? Cautionary tales and oral tradition in early modern England / Alexandra Walsham -- The genealogical histories of Gaelic Scotland / Martin MacGregor -- Constructing oral tradition : the origins of the concept in Enlightenment intellectual culture / Nicholas Hudson -- 'Things said or sung a thousand times' : customary society and oral culture in rural England, 1700 - 1900 / Bob Bushaway.

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