Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture A Selection

Name: Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture A Selection
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ISBN: 9780198711353

ISBN-10: 0198711352

ISBN-13: 9780198711353

Edition: 2000

Authors: John Mullan, Christopher Reid

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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…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/21/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



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