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Oral Culture Bibliography

Atkinson, David. “‘William and Margaret’: An Eighteenth-Century Ballad.” Folk Music Journal 10.4 (2014): 478–511. Web.

Carpenter, Andrew. “Garbling and Jumbling; Printing from Dictation in Eighteenth-Century Limerick.” Oral and Print Cultures in Ireland, 1600-1900. Ed. Marc (ed.) Caball and Andrew (ed.) Carpenter. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts, 2010. 32–46. Web.

Davey, James. “Singing for the Nation: Balladry, Naval Recruitment and the Language of Patriotism in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Mariner’s Mirror 103.1 (2017): 43–66. Web.

Dugaw, Dianne. “On the ‘Darling Songs’ of Poets, Scholars, and Singers: An Introduction.” Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation (Texas Tech University Press) 47.2/3 (2006): 97–113. Web.

---. “The Popular Marketing of ‘Old Ballads’: The Ballad Revival and Eighteenth-Century Antiquarianism Reconsidered.” Roots Music. Ed. Mark F (ed. and introd.) DeWitt. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2011. 3–22. Web. Library of Essays on Popular Music (Library of Essays on Popular Music).

Fox, Adam. “Approaches to Ephemera: Scottish Broadsides, 1679-1746.” Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print. Ed. Kevin D (ed.) Murphy and Sally (ed.) O’Driscoll. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2013. 117–141. Web. Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture).

---. “The Emergence of the Scottish Broadside Ballad in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries.” Journal of Scottish Historical Studies Nov. 2011: 169–194. Web.

Franklin, Alexandra. “Making Sense of Broadside Ballad Illustrations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.” Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print. Ed. Kevin D (ed.) Murphy and Sally (ed.) O’Driscoll. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2013. 169–194. Web. Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture).

Fulford, Tim. “Fallen Ladies and Cruel Mothers: Ballad Singers and Ballad Heroines in the Eighteenth Century.” Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation (Texas Tech University Press) 47.2/3 (2006): 309–329. Web.

Groom, Nick. “‘The Purest English’: Ballads and the English Literary Dialect.” Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation (Texas Tech University Press) 2006: 179–202. Web.

Henigan, Julie. “Print and Oral Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Irish Ballad.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 41 (2012): 161–183. Web.

Horgan, Kate. The Politics of Songs in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1723-1795. London, England: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. Web. Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution (Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution).

Ivana, Dragoș. “The Counter-Hegemonic Virtues of Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century England.” American, British, and Canadian Studies 25 (2015): 10–19. Web.

Korshin, Paul J. “Reconfiguring the Past: The Eighteenth Century Confronts Oral Culture.” Yearbook of English Studies 28 (1998): 235–249. Web.

McDowell, Paula. “‘The Art of Printing Was Fatal’: Print Commerce and the Idea of Oral Tradition in Long Eighteenth-Century Ballad Discourse.” Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800. Ed. Patricia (ed. and introd.) Fumerton et al. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2010. 35–56. Web.

---. “‘The Manufacture and Lingua-Facture of “Ballad-Making”’: Broadside Ballads in Long Eighteenth-Century Ballad Discourse.” Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation (Texas Tech University Press) 47.2/3 (2006): 151–178. Web.

McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne).” Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation (Texas Tech University Press) 2006: 253–287. Web.

McLane, Maureen N. “Dating Orality, Thinking Balladry: Of Milkmaids and Minstrels in 1771.” Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation (Texas Tech University Press) 47.2/3 (2006): 131–149. Web.

McLane, Maureen N, and Laura M Slatkin. “British Romantic Homer: Oral Tradition, ‘Primitive Poetry’ and the Emergence of Comparative Poetics in Britain, 1760-1830.” ELH 78.3 (2011): 687–714. Web.

Newman, Ian. “Civilizing Taste: ‘Sandman Joe,’ the Bawdy Ballad, and Metropolitan Improvement.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 48.4 (2015): 437–456. Web.

O’Donnell, Katherine. “Castle Stopgap: Historical Reality, Literary Realism, and Oral Culture.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 22.1 (2009): 115–130. Web.

Perry, Ruth. “What Gets Printed from Oral Tradition: Anna Gordon’s Ephemeral Ballads.” Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print. Ed. Kevin D (ed.) Murphy and Sally (ed.) O’Driscoll. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2013. 99–116. Web. Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture).

Piper, Andrew. “Transitional Figures: Image, Translation, and the Ballad from Broadside to Photograph.” Book Illustration in the Long Eighteenth Century: Reconfiguring the Visual Periphery of the Text. Ed. Christina (ed. and introd.) Ionescu. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2011. 157–191. Web.

Pittock, Murray. “SOURCES AND DATES FOR THE JACOBITE SONG II.” Archives (00039535) Apr. 2005: 1–7. Web.

Rouse, Andrew C. “The Transportation Ballad: A Song Type Rooted in Eighteenth-Century England.” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 13.1–2 (2007): 93–103. Web.