Ballads and broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800

Introduction : straws in the wind / Patricia Fumerton and Anita Guerrini

Remembering by dismembering : databases, archiving, and the recollection of seventeenth-century broadside ballads / Patricia Fumerton

The art of printing was fatal : print commerce and the idea of oral tradition in long eighteenth-century ballad discourse / Paula McDowell

Child's ballads and the broadside conundrum / Mary Ellen Brown

Journalism vs. tradition in the early English ballads of the murdered sweetheart / Thomas Pettit

Do you take this hog-faced woman to be your wedded wife? / Tassie Gniady

Advertising monstrosity : broadsides and human exhibition in early eighteenth-century London / Anita Guerrini

And I my vowe did keepe : oath making, subjectivity, and husband murder in "murderous wife" ballads / Simone Chess

Tracking the petty traitor across genres / Frances Dolan

Ballads and the emotional life of crime / Joy Wiltenburg

The maiden's bloody garland : Thomas Warton and the elite appropriation of popular song / Steve Newman

Ne sutor ultra crepidam : political cobblers and broadside ballads in late seventeenth-century England / Angela McShane

William Hogarth's pregnant ballad sellers and the engraver's matrix / Elizabeth Mitchell

War and the media in border minstrelsy : the ballad of Chevy Chase / Ruth Perry

Heroines gritty and tender, printed and oral, late-breaking and traditional : revisiting the Anglo-American female warrior / Dianne Dugaw

Music and Indians in John Gay's Polly / Noelle Chao

Afterword : ballad futures / by Bruce R. Smith.