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Child's Unfinished Masterpiece:

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

ISBN-13: 9780252035944
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Mary Ellen Brown
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Local release date: 14/05/2011
Format: Hardback (240.00mm X 170.00mm) 296 pages Weight: 600g
Categories: Music [AV]

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Google Preview: The premier scholar of the English-language traditional or popular ballad, Francis James Child spent decades working on his widely read and performed collection, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. In this study of Child's life and work, Mary Ellen Brown analyzes Child's editorial methods, his decisions about which ballads to include, and his relationships with colleagues. Child's Unfinished Masterpiece shows readers what was at stake in Child's search for original manuscript materials housed at libraries and estates far afield and his desire to uncover unedited versions of previous editors' texts. In analyzing Child's extensive correspondence, Brown also delves into his important network of collaborators, scholars, and friends such as William Macmath, Sven Grundtvig, James Russell Lowell, and Charles Eliot Norton, who influenced the organization and content of his work.; Acknowledgments ix Prelude: The Project 1 1. The Man - Francis James Child 7 The English and Scottish Popular Ballads 2. The Description 71 3. The History of the Book - Child's Great Temptation 78 Child's Gallant Army of Auxiliaries 4. The Transatlantic Collaborators 159 5. William Macmath - Partner in the Ballad Cause 186 6. George Lyman Kittredge - Literary Executor Extraordinaire 213 Postlude: Child's Ballad Concept Redux 231 Appendix A. Wanted, Old Ballads 249 Appendix B. Invitation 251 Appendix C. Prospectus 258 Appendix D. Rejected Pieces 260 Bibliography 265 Index 275; ''This monument of research, synthesis, and reflection is a groundbreaking book that stands as its own major contribution to folklore and ballad studies and serves as a stimulus for further research--just as Child's own titanic work has done. I learned many things from this book, as will anyone who opens its pages.'' Maureen N. McLane, author of Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry ''This illuminating study captures the richness of Francis James Child's labours on The English and Scottish Popular Ballads through a patient scrutiny of his vast correspondence with a host of collaborators. In tracing Child's conclusions about the ballads, Brown provides valuable analysis of the letters that will be appreciated by ballad scholars, folklorists, and scholars of literature alike.'' James Porter, founding editor of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music; Google Preview content

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