William Motherwell's Cultural Politics: 1797-1835 by Brown, Mary Ellen

William Motherwell's Cultural Politics: 1797-1835 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813121888)

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William Motherwell's Cultural Politics: 1797-1835 by Brown, Mary Ellen

William Motherwell's Cultural Politics: 1797-1835

$35.00
William Motherwell's Cultural Politics: 1797-1835 by Brown, Mary Ellen

William Motherwell's Cultural Politics: 1797-1835

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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"""This is ballad scholarship at its best."-Wilhelm F. Nicolaisen William Motherwell (l797-l835), journalist, poet, man-of-letters, wit, civil servant, and outspoken conservative, published his anthology of ballads, Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern, in l827. His views on authenticity, editorial practice, the nature of oral transmission, and the importance of sung performance--acquired through field collecting--anticipate much later scholarly discourse. Published after the death of Burns and the p

Author: Mary Ellen Brown
ISBN-10: 0813121884
ISBN-13: 9780813121888
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2001
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2001 pg. 113
By Mary Ellen Brown
By Mary Ellen Brown
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Mary Ellen Brown, professor of folklore and director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University, Bloomington, is editor of the Journal of Folklore Research.

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