Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture
A Selection
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 October 2000
- ISBN 9780198711346
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages326 pages
- Size 242x164x23 mm
- Weight 722 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 halftones 0
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Short description:
This book is a carefully annotated selection from the popular culture of the eighteenth century. Each chapter focuses on not only a particular theme but also a particular story, often illustrated by contemporary newspaper reports. It makes available to any reader with an interest in the period material that was once popular but has long been buried.
MoreLong description:
This collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance. In the early part of the century, high and low cultures often collided. Later in the century, politeness more and more required the distancing of genteel from vulgar amusements. This carefully annotated selection rediscovers some of the energies of the low and the vulgar in the period. It examines particular themes (crime, religious enthusiasm, popular politics, for example) by telling particular stories (the career of a notorious criminal, the exploits of a religious sect, John Wilkes and the crowd). It also illustrates how the very idea of popular culture was formed in the period, providing examples of the ways in which it was discussed both by those who were fearful of it and those who were fascinated by it.
Any anthology challenges the reader ... But the real interest of this one, besides its provocative complexity, is the conjunction of the expected (like the passages on Bartholemew Fair) and the unexpected.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Using the Selection
Eighteenth-Century Views of Popular Culture
Religious enthusiasm: the French Prophets, 1707-1711
Fairgoers and Reformers: the Struggle for Bartholomew Fair
Almanacs: Astrology and Popular Protestantism
Crime: the Fortunes of Jack Sheppard
Custom and the Calendar: the Gregorian Reform and its Opponents
Popular Politics: John Wilkes and the Crowd, 1768-70
Popular Perceptions of Empire: Native Americans in Britain in the 1760s
Index
