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

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...

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Main Author: Perry, Ruth (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. Literature Section (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Berg Publishers, 2013-06-28T15:13:05Z.
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