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The Voice of the People: Writing the European Folk Revival, 1760-1914

The Voice of the People: Writing the European Folk Revival, 1760-1914

Campbell, Matthew
Perraudin, Michael

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Literary CriticismMythology & Folklore

ISBN10: 1843318946
ISBN13: 9781843318941
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: Mar 15 2012
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

'The Voice of the People' presents a series of essays on literary aspects of the European folk revival through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Its approach is both topical and generic, addressing not just the question of what purposes the folk revival served but also its many forms and genres. It focuses on two practices of antiquarianism, namely the key role that collecting and editing played in the formation of ethnological study in the European academy, and the business of publishing and editing that produced many 'folkloric' texts of dubious authenticity. Collecting and editing went hand-in-hand with plagiarism and forgery in the practice of many: much English, Scottish and Irish folk-song is of late-eighteenth century literary origin. Across Europe, too, national literary identities were often based on origins supposedly discovered in the people, but which were frequently the stuff of fiction. As was the case with Russian and Czech folklore, an interest in the folkloric was often successfully hybridised, with, for example, a continuing emphasis on classical patterns instructing the creation of vernacular art forms. In Germany, debate about the folk served the purposes of a radical writing in a time of successive political upheavals.

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