TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Mary Ellen
TI  - William Motherwell's cultural politics
SN  - 081317113X
AV  - PR5101.M3 Z59 2001eb
U1  - 821/.7 22
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Lexington, Ky.
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Motherwell, William,
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Scotland
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - POETRY
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - fast
KW  - Literature
KW  - Politique et littérature
KW  - Écosse
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - In literature
KW  - Dans la littérature
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index; Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward a Biographical Social History; Chapter 1: Gulielmus Motherwell, Willyan Moderwell, William Motherwell; Chapter 2: Politics; Chapter 3: The Poet; Chapter 4: The Ballad Errantry; Chapter 5: The Death of Literature; Chapter 6: Les Bons Mots; Chapter 7: Play; Chapter 8: But Who Was William Motherwell?; Appendix 1: Informants and Items; Appendix 2: Drafts on Variation; Appendix 3: Memoirs of a Paisley Bail; Appendix 4: Motherwell's Affiliations and Associates; Appendix 5: Annotations Relating to Motherwell's AssociatesNotes; Bibliography; Index; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - William Motherwell (1797-1835), journalist, poet, man-of-letters, wit, civil servant, and outspoken conservative, published his anthology of ballads, Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern, in 1827. His views on authenticity, editorial practice, the nature of oral transmission, and the importance of sung performance--acquired through field collecting--anticipate much later scholarly discourse.Published after the death of Burns and the publication of Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, ballads such as those Motherwell collected were one focus of a loose-knit movement that might be designated, c
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