• Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 Introduction. "Fugitive Pieces" and "Gaudy Books:" Textual, Historical, and Visual Interpretations of Ephemera in the Long Eighteenth Century Kevin D. Murphy and Sally O'Driscoll Part I: Definitions and Categorizations 2 Of Grubs and Other Insects: Constructing the Categories of "Ephemera" and "Literature" in Eighteenth-Century British Writing Paula McDowell 3 Digitizing Ephemera and Its Discontents: EBBA's Quest to Capture the Protean Broadside Ballad Patricia Fumerton 4 What Gets Printed from Oral Tradition: Anna Gordon's Ephemeral Ballads Ruth Perry 5 Approaches to Ephemera: Scottish Broadsides, 1679-1746 Adam Fox 6 Ephemera at the American Antiquarian Society: Perspectives on Commercial Life in the Long Eighteenth Century Georgia Barnhill Part II: Text and Image 7 Making Sense of Broadside Ballad Illustrations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Alexandra Franklin 8 "A Battleground Around the Crime:" The Visuality of Execution Ephemera and Its Cultural Significances in Late Seventeenth-Century England Tara Burk 9 From "The Easter Wedding" to "The Frantick Lover:" The Repeated Woodcut and Its Shifting Roles Theodore Barrow 10 What Kind of Man Do the Clothes Make? Print Culture and the Meanings of Macaroni Effeminacy Sally O'Driscoll Bibliography Index About the Contributors.
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Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print brings together established and emerging scholars of early modern print culture to explore the dynamic relationships between words and illustrations in a wide variety of popular cheap print from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. While ephemera was ubiquitous in the period, it is scarcely visible to us now, because only a handful of the thousands of examples once in existence have been preserved. Nonetheless, single-sheet printed works, as well as pamphlets and chapbooks, constituted a central part of visual and literary culture, and were eagerly consumed by rich and poor alike in Great Britain, North America, and on the Continent. Displayed in homes, posted in taverns and other public spaces, or visible in shop windows on city streets, ephemeral works used sensational means to address themes of great topicality. The English broadside ballad, of central concern in this volume, grew out of oral culture; the genre addressed issues of nationality, history, gender and sexuality, economics, and more. Richly illustrated and well researched, Studies in Ephemera offers interdisciplinary perspectives into how ephemeral works reached their audiences through visual and textual means. It also includes essays that describe how collections of ephemera are categorized in digital and conventional archives, and how our understanding of these works is shaped by their organization into collections. This timely and fascinating book will appeal to archivists, and students and scholars in many fields, including art history, comparative literature, social and economic history, and English literature. Contributors: Georgia Barnhill, Theodore Barrow, Tara Burk, Adam Fox, Alexandra Franklin, Patricia Fumerton, Paula McDowell, Kevin D. Murphy, Sally O'Driscoll, Ruth Perry.
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With over 1000 colourful images, Robert Opie brings to life the 1920s and captures the mood of this radical decade. The 1920s were a time for change and invention. The arrival of the wireless provided a new form of entertainment and "The Radio Times" was launched in 1923. The popularity of the cinema continued and was changed forever with the coming of "talkies" and "The Jazz Singer" in 1926. While there were many notable events, from the Tutankhamen discoveries to the Empire exhibition at Wembley, unemployment and worker's discontent pervaded everyday life, culminating in the General strike of 1926. For children, however, fun and amusement could be found with new cartoon characters: the antics of Felix the Cat at the pictures, tales of Pooh Bear in Milne's book and, in newspapers, Bonzo the Dog (Daily Sketch), Rupert the Bear (Daily Express), Teddy Tail (Daily Mail) and Pip, Squeak and Wilfred (Daily Mirror). Apart from women daring to smoke, the young "flappers" found freedom in the rising hemlines that revealed their legs and enabled the new energetic dances such as the Charleston and Black Bottom. It was an experimental age for hairstyles, perming, criping, bobbing. No wonder then that this decade became known as the roaring twenties.
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