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Patricia Fumerton
A comprehensive presentation and examination of a popular seventeenth-century genre: the English broadside ballad
In its seventeenth-century heyday, the English broadside ballad was a single large sheet of paper printed…
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Featuring more than 80 illustrations and easy access to related music files, this magisterial work argues that a ballad cannot be read as a fixed artifact, independent of its illustrations…
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A brilliant postmodern critique of Renaissance subjectivity, Cultural Aesthetics explores the simultaneous formation and fragmentation of aristocratic selfhood in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Patricia Fumerton situates the…
Barlow’s journal, studied extensively here for the first time, vividly charts what he himself termed his unsettled mind and the perpetual anxieties of England’s working and wayfaring poor.
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Poor migrants made up a growing class of workers in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. This book is an ambitious attempt to reconstruct the everyday lives of these dispossessed people…
Offers a perspective on the development and cultural practice of print in early modern Britain. This title features fifteen essays that explore the different methods by which contemporaries of the…
In Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, scholars illuminate the sometimes surprising issues at stake in such common matters of daily life as mirrors, books, horses, money, laundry baskets, graffiti, embroidery…
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Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson: Laureations brings together new essays by leading literary scholars of the British and European middle ages and early modern period who have been influenced…
This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored treasure-trove of over 100,000 Central/Eastern European broadside ballads of the…
