Songs Of Protest Songs Of Love Popular Ballads In Eighteenthcentury Britain

"Songs of Protest, Songs of Love: Popular Ballads in Eighteenth-Century Britain shows how songs can bring back voices from the past in a new way. The focus of the book is on rural Britain in a time of crisis. The songs offer a peek into the eighteenth-century world very different from the one portrayed in polite poems and novels. The book will be of interest to scholars, advanced students and readers with an interest in cultural history and popular ballads."--Jacket.