Index of English Literary Manuscripts

Index of English Literary Manuscripts
Author:
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1998-06-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 072012283X

This volume, the third in the series, discusses the works of 11 British 18th-century writers, providing information on the nature of the MS, date, variant title(s), state of completion, provenance and location, date and first form of publication, any scholarly use of the MS, and the existence of any published facsimiles. Information is drawn from material in libraries, record offices and private collections throughout the world. The listing of each author's manuscripts is preceded by an introduction. The book records many hitherto unrecorded manuscripts.

The Making of Percy's Reliques

The Making of Percy's Reliques
Author: Nick Groom
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1999
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780198184591

Percy's Reliques is the seminal collection of historical and lyrical ballads that defined English literature at the end of the 18th century. This study examines his working methods.

The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, Volume 4

The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, Volume 4
Author: Bertrand Harris Bronson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2015-03-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1400867525

With this volume, incorporating Ballads 244-305, Bertrand Harris Bronson completes his epic task of providing the musical counterpart to Francis James Child's collection of English and Scottish ballads. As in the previous volumes, the texts are linked with their proper traditional tunes, systematically ordered and grouped to show melodic kinship and characteristic variations developed during the course of oral transmission. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend

Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend
Author: Katie Garner
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2017-12-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137597127

This book reveals the breadth and depth of women’s engagements with Arthurian romance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Tracing the variety of women’s responses to the medieval revival through Gothic literature, travel writing, scholarship, and decorative gift books, it argues that differences in the kinds of Arthurian materials read by and prepared for women produced a distinct female tradition in Arthurian writing. Examining the Arthurian interests of the best-selling female poets of the day, Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and uncovering those of many of their contemporaries, the Arthurian myth in the Romantic period is a vibrant location for debates about the function of romance, the role of the imagination, and women’s place in literary history.