The common touch :: popular literature from 1660 to the Mid-Eighteenth century. Volume II /

Beginning where volume one of The Common Touch leaves off, selections of English popular literature from the Restoration to the mid-years of the eighteenth century are offered in this second and final volume. However, while interest in such traditional literary types as the ballad and chapbook conti...

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Hauptverfasser: Scanlon, Paul A. (VerfasserIn), Roscoe, Adrian A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
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Zusammenfassung:Beginning where volume one of The Common Touch leaves off, selections of English popular literature from the Restoration to the mid-years of the eighteenth century are offered in this second and final volume. However, while interest in such traditional literary types as the ballad and chapbook continued unabated in this period, new forms began to emerge, with the popularity of journals and novels reflecting not only a more diversified readership, but also the rise of prose as a medium for public debate and entertainment. With increasing middle-class literacy filtering down to servants and appr.
Beschreibung:1 online resource : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9781443893480
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