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Subject(s)

• Literary form [Browse]

Editor

• Rowlett, John L., 1943- [Browse]

Series

Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print [More in this series]

Summary note

"The aim of this book is to orchestrate "a generic reconstitution of literary studies" based on a comprehensive theory of genre and generic transformation. Taking "An Excellent Ballad of George Barnwel," a seventeenth-century broadside of sex and greed, Ralph Cohen analyzes the generic transformations--including Addison's ballad criticism in The Spectator, The London Merchant, Percy's ballad editing in Reliques, and Barnwell. A Novel--in which this particular ballad exhibits remarkable continuity over the next four centuries, culminating with his personal re-formation; what was considered non-literary criticism becomes literary. This unique literary history reconceives narrative as a component of genre rather than a genre itself, demonstrates the ineluctably mixed nature of genres and the literary nature of our humanness, and analyzes the shifting generic contexts for interpretation and gender relations. Incorporating theory consciousness into the literary genre he is regenerating, Cohen offers a brilliant example of how future literary histories might be written."-- retailer's webpage.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Autobiographical Introduction
• Chapter 2. Bibliographical History of a Genre
• Chapter 3. Ballad, Texts, Tunes, Material Culture
• Chapter 4. Companion Genres: From Ballad to Chapbook
• Chapter 5. Intervention 1: Initiating Genres: Addisons Ballad Criticism and Its Parody
• Chapter 6. From Ballad to Tragedy: Processes of Generic Conversion in The London Merchant
• Chapter 7. Generic Combinations and Recombinations: Revising, Editing, Collecting, Anthologizing
• Chapter 8. Tragedy to Novel: Genre and Value
• Chapter 9. Intervention 2: Problems of Generic Transformation
• Chapter 10. Undermining a Genre: Parody, Value Reversal, Counter-Genre
• Chapter 11. From False History to Historical Novel
• Chapter 12. Ballad Criticism, Genre Theory, and the Dismantling of Rhetoric
• Chapter 13. The Regeneration of Genre
• 14. Barnwell Bibliographies.

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ISBN

• 9783030896676 (hardcover)
• 3030896676 (hardcover)

OCLC

1285702130

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