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oapen-20.500.12657-761732023-09-13T03:32:55Z Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century Atkinson, David Roud, Steve Eighteenth-century trade;Street literature;Ballads;Chapbooks;Popular prints;Printers;Book trade bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AF Art forms::AFH Prints & printmaking bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLL Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies::JFCA Popular culture bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies::JFCD Material culture bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KN Industry & industrial studies::KNT Media, information & communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry & book trade bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1D Europe::1DB British Isles::1DBK United Kingdom, Great Britain This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature. The breadth and depth of the contributions give a much fuller and more nuanced picture of what was being widely published and read during this period than has previously been available. It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century popular culture and literature, print history and the book trade, ballad and folk studies, children’s literature, and social history. 2023-09-11T12:33:00Z 2023-09-11T12:33:00Z 2023 book 9781805110392 9781805110408 9781805110422 9781805110446 9781805110453 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76173 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781805110415.pdf https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0347 Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0347 10.11647/OBP.0347 23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b 9781805110392 9781805110408 9781805110422 9781805110446 9781805110453 ScholarLed 398 Cambridge open access
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This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature.
The breadth and depth of the contributions give a much fuller and more nuanced picture of what was being widely published and read during this period than has previously been available. It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century popular culture and literature, print history and the book trade, ballad and folk studies, children’s literature, and social history.
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