Special Issue: Ballads and Songs in the Eighteenth Century

Guest Editor: Ruth Perry

Table of Contents

Mary Ellen Brown, “Placed, Replaced, or Misplaced?: The Ballads’ Progress.”

Maureen N. McLane, “Dating Orality, Thinking Balladry: Of Milkmaids and Minstrels in 1771.”

Paula McDowell, ““The Manufacture and Lingua-facture of Ballad-Making “: Broadside Ballads in Long Eighteenth-Century Ballad Discourse.”

Nick Groom, ““The purest english”: Ballads and the English Literary Dialect.”

Gerald Porter, Jukka Tiusanen, “Performing Resistance to the New Rural Order: An Unpublished Ballad Opera and the Green Song.”

Mary-Ann Constantine, “Songs and Stones: Iolo Morganwg (1747-1826), Mason and Bard.”

Carol McGuirk, “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne).”

Ruth Perry, “Brother Trouble: Incest Ballads of the British Isles.”

Tim Fulford, “Fallen Ladies and Cruel Mothers: Ballad Singers and Ballad Heroines in the Eighteenth Century.”

Dianne Dugaw, “On the “Darling Songs” of Poets, Scholars, and Singers: An Introduction.”