David Atkinson 
The Ballad and its Pasts [PDF ebook] 
Literary Histories and the Play of Memory

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A new approach to the mysterious ballads, and their relationship with the past.
Katharine Briggs Award 2018: Runner Up
The ballad genre, and its material, are frequently backward-looking in terms of subject and style: it is ideally suited to the reimagining of past events, both real and fictional. This volume addresses the past
of the ballad and the past
in the ballad. It challenges existing scholarship by embracing discontinuity rather than continuity, seeing the ballad as belonging to a culture of cheap printand imaginative literature rather than the rarefied construct of a mythical ‘folk’. It finds a conscious antiquarianism and medievalism reinterpreting the genre at different stages of its literary history, at the same time as theballad itself is continually adapting to the needs of readers, singers, and audience.
Chapters cover the few remaining examples of the medieval ballad, and Thomas Percy’s medievalism; David Mallet’s ‘William and Margaret’ andthe beginnings of the gothic mode early in the eighteenth century; ballads of ‘Sir James the Rose’ and the culture of cheap print in Scotland from the late eighteenth through to the early twentieth century; shipwreck ballads on the loss of the Ramillies and ‘Sir Patrick Spens’, and the reimagining of the past in the present, with a diversion into Coleridge’s ‘Dejection: An Ode’; murder ballads, special providence, and the history of mentalities from earlymodern to Victorian times.
DAVID ATKINSON is Honorary Research Fellow at the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen.

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The Ballad and the Idea of the Past
Survival and Revival: The Medieval Ballad and Ballad Medievalism
Gothic Beginnings: Dead Lovers Return
Imitations of Ancient Ballads?: Swordsmen in the Landscape
The Idea of a Memory: Worse Things Happen at Sea
Providence and the (Re-)Ordering of Reality: Murder Will Out?
Afterword
Select Bibliography

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