Langbeschreibung
This second volume explores what Broadside ballads reveal about the flavour and history of English life. Focusing on the first half of the nineteenth century, the examples derive from the Madden Collection in the University Library, Cambridge.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Abbreviations -- Introduction to Volume 2 -- The Ballads -- 1 The Ballad and its Singers -- 2 Love Songs and Narratives -- 3 Sex Tricks and the Sex War -- 4 Rambles and Rigs -- 5 Marriage -- 6 Comic Ballads -- 7 Social Life -- 8 Religion and Morals -- 9 Rural Life -- 10 Crime -- 11 The Army and the Navy -- 12 Napoleon -- 13 The State of the Nation -- 14 The Royal Family -- 15 'Ballads on a Subject' -- 16 Fashion -- 17 Trades Ballads -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Titles -- Index of First Lines.