id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_kerlmoweyndxvaiwwa5wc6aw7u A. Esterhammer MAUREEN N. MCLANE. Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry 2009 4 .pdf application/pdf 1940 107 49 Review of: Balladeering, minstrelsy, and the making of British romantic Review of: Balladeering, minstrelsy, and the making of British romantic The case studies range from canonical authors (Burns and Scott) to figures that are unfamiliar even to specialists in the field (the early nineteenth-century Shetland poet Margaret Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic signals another of the book's major concerns: the obsession with documentation and authorisation amongst those who work with ballads and minstrelsy. draws on literary history, ethnography and ethnomusicology, folklore, Romanticist scholarship, and cultural theory, but above all on various international inflections of media studies: 11, italics added): throughout the book, McLane works through balladry and minstrelsy in order to pursue conclusions about mediality. The book's seven chapters constitute interwoven studies of transhistorical mediality, since the first half of the book, in its eagerness to expose Romantic balladeers as media Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry offers pithy, witty, and productively ./cache/work_kerlmoweyndxvaiwwa5wc6aw7u.pdf ./txt/work_kerlmoweyndxvaiwwa5wc6aw7u.txt