A01=C.M. Jackson-Houlston
Auld Robin Gray
Author_C.M. Jackson-Houlston
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Category=DSBF
chase
chevy
Chevy Chase
class representation
Corn Law Rhymes
cultural mediation
Dorset County Museum
EFDSS
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eq_biography-true-stories
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folk
Folk Song
folk song appropriation in novels
fugitives
gender politics
Implied Reader
Industrial Muse
intertextuality analysis
jacobite
JACOBITE RELICS
Keel Row
lovers
Madding Crowd
nineteenth-century Britain
NLS
poorhouse
Poorhouse Fugitives
relics
Ringan Gilhaize
Romany Rye
Scotish Minstrel
Scots Musical Museum
SMM
Song Book
Street Songs
Sweet Home
sylvia's
Sylvia's Lovers
vaughan
Victorian literature
Willow Tree
Working Class Poets
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138272064
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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As a book on allusion, this has interest for both the traditional literary or cultural historian and for the modern student of textuality and readership positions. It focuses on allusion to folksong, and, more tangentially, to popular culture, areas which have so far been slighted by literary critics. In the nineteenth century many authors attempted to mediate the culture(s) of the working classes for the enjoyment of their predominantly middle-class audiences. In so doing they took songs out of their original social and musical contexts and employed a variety of strategies which - consciously or unconsciously - romanticised, falsified or denigrated what the novels or stories claimed to represent. In addition, some writers who were well-informed about the cultures they described used allusion to song as a covert system of reference to topics such as sexuality and the criticism of class and gender relations which it was difficult to discuss directly.
