Ballad and Street Literature Printing in Petticoat Lane, 1740s-1760s

Authors

  • David Atkinson Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, King’s College, AB243FX, Scotland, UK

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2018470206

Keywords:

Larkin How, Petticoat Lane, ballads, broadsides, chapbooks // Larkin How, balade, balade na letakih, male knjižice balad

Abstract

The strongest evidence for ballads in eighteenth-century England lies in the considerable numbers of printed broadsides and chapbooks that survive from the period. The printers of ballads also issued prose works aimed at the same street literature market. This paper provides a glimpse into the trade by describing the variety of publications issued by Larkin How in London’s Petticoat Lane from the 1740s to the 1760s.

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Najmočnejši dokaz obstoja balad v Angliji 18. stoletja so številne ohranjene natisnjene balade na letakih in v majhnih knjižicah. Tiskarji balad so izdajali tudi pripovedi, prav tako namenjene ulični prodaji literature. Članek predstavlja bežen pogled v trgovanje z opisom raznovrstnih publikacij, ki jih je izdajal Larkin How na Petticoat Lane v Londonu od 40. do 60. let 18. stoletja.

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Published

19.10.2018

How to Cite

Atkinson, D. (2018). Ballad and Street Literature Printing in Petticoat Lane, 1740s-1760s. Traditiones, 47(2), 105–115. https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2018470206

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INTERDISCIPLINARNI SPLET HUMANISTIČNIH RAZISKAV / AN INTERDISCIPLINARY MISCELLANEA OF HUMANIST RESEARCH