Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century

Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: David Atkinson
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2023-09-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 180511042X

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.

The New Nature of Maps

The New Nature of Maps
Author: J. B. Harley
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2002-10-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801870903

In these essays the author draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional 'positivist' model of cartography and replace it with one grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps.