The Review of English Studies Prize Essay * 'It Ought not to be Lost to the World': The Transmission and Consumption of Eighteenth-Century Lyric Verse

Batt, Jennifer

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“…26 A single song might therefore be published in several different formats throughout the course of the century. 27 Likewise, the same song might be published by two competing printers in the same town. O(h) Dear!…”

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7. Slip Songs and Engraved Song Sheets

Stoker

2023

Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century

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During the 1690s a new print format began to emerge – the slip song, or slip ballad, which rapidly became the most popular means for disseminating the words of popular songs. There has been little research into the format and production of these songs. This chapter therefore provides a case study of the 3,800 songs listed on ESTC annotated with the words slip song. It considers such matters as the format, illustration, price, subject content, date, language, authorship and or performance, place of publication, and who printed, sold, or collected them. During the last quarter of the eighteenth century a new format emerged of engraved song sheets and these are also briefly considered.

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7. Slip Songs and Engraved Song Sheets

Stoker

2023

Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century

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“…Even in Britain, copyright legislation did not always restrict the flow of verse. My own work on ‘The Midsummer Wish’, a short lyric poem which was reprinted in a variety of formats more than 70 times over the course of the 18th century shows how anonymous poems could be reproduced extensively without any restriction by copyright legislation (Batt). However, though St Clair’s generalization about the contents of printed collections before 1774 might not be accurate, there does seem to have been a change in or around 1774, and as Thomas Bonnell has shown, the decision to alter copyright legislation did help stimulate the production of multi‐volume anthologies at the end of the century.…”

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Eighteenth‐Century Verse Miscellanies

Batt

2012

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Thousands of verse collections containing the works of multiple authors were published in the 18th century. This essay offers a guide to recent scholarship on these collections of ‘poems by several hands’. It provides an overview of the many different kinds of miscellany and anthology that were produced, before exploring what these publications might reveal about the 18th‐century literary landscape. It considers what miscellanies and anthologies contribute to our understanding of authorship and anonymity, genre, canon formation and the literary past, women writers, and regionalism and nationalism. It then investigates what these texts reveal about 18th‐century reading practices, and about the workings of the 18th‐century book trade. The essay concludes with an account of an important current research project, the Digital Miscellanies Index.

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“…29 29 Its power as a research resource is demonstrated by Jennifer Batt, ‘“It Ought Not to Be Lost to the World”: The Transmission and Consumption of Eighteenth‐Century Lyric Verse’, Review of English Studies , 62.255 (), 414–32.…”

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Digital Humanities and Electronic Resources in the Long Eighteenth Century

Bullard

2013

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The field of eighteenth-century studies at its broadest extenttaking in the English Restoration, the Enlightenment, and the Romantic periodhas changed significantly since the beginning of the twenty-first century due to the impact of electronic resources on research methods and on the accessibility of primary research materials. Theorists of the digital humanities writing at the end of the previous century argued that the computerization of humanities research would make the editing and archiving of historical texts more subtle and fluid. This article argues that humanities computing has in fact moved away from editing and textual criticism toward the development of larger and more interoperable databases. Current digital humanities in the long eighteenth century are defined by the Enlightenment virtues of pragmatism and communicability, but they have yet to attain the Enlightenment ideals of openness and refinement.

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The Review of English Studies Prize Essay * 'It Ought not to be Lost to the World': The Transmission and Consumption of Eighteenth-Century Lyric Verse

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7. Slip Songs and Engraved Song Sheets

7. Slip Songs and Engraved Song Sheets

Eighteenth‐Century Verse Miscellanies

Digital Humanities and Electronic Resources in the Long Eighteenth Century

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