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Mary Ellen Brown - Child´s Unfinished Masterpiece: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads - 9780252035944 - V9780252035944
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Child´s Unfinished Masterpiece: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

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Description for Child´s Unfinished Masterpiece: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Hardback. An in-depth analysis of the creation of Child's opus, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKS; AVGC5; AVGH; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 168 x 28. Weight in Grams: 592.
The premier scholar of the English-language traditional or popular ballad, Francis James Child spent decades working on his widely read and performed collection, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. In this first single author monograph of Child's life and work, Mary Ellen Brown analyzes Child's editorial methods, his decisions about which ballads to include, and his relationships with colleagues at Harvard and abroad. Brown draws on his extensive correspondence with collaborators to trace the production of his monumental work from conception and selection through organization and collation of the ballads.  Child's Unfinished Masterpiece shows readers what was at stake in ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
591g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252035944
SKU
V9780252035944
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About Mary Ellen Brown
Mary Ellen Brown is a professor emerita of folklore, women's studies, and English (adjunct) at Indiana University Bloomington. Her previous publications include William Motherwell's Cultural Politics, 1797–1835 and Burns and Tradition.

Reviews for Child´s Unfinished Masterpiece: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
"This monument of research, synthesis, and reflection is a groundbreaking book that stands as its own major contribution to folklore and ballad studies and serves as a stimulus for further research
just as Child's own titanic work has done. I learned many things from this book, as will anyone who opens its pages."
Maureen N. McLane, author of Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the ... Read more

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