Self and Society: Attitudes towards Incest in Popular Ballads [book chapter]

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Perry, Ruth
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Abstract
Ballads are a great unsung body of texts that hover on the margins of eighteenth-century literary history without quite being acknowledged by modern scholars of the period. But ballads were a crucial cultural phenomenon in eighteenth-century society, a common experience of rich and poor, so embedded in the soundscape as not to be remarked, any more than the air people breathed.
Date issued
2010
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79383
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. Literature Section
Journal
A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment
Publisher
Berg Publishers
Citation
Perry, Ruth (2012). Self and Society: Attitudes towards Incest in Popular Ballads. In Carole Reeves (Ed.). A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment (pp.195-211). Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2010. (Cultural Histories Series; 4)
Version: Final published version
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9781847887917
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