The spoken word : oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850 /: oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850. (2002)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf.
• Other Names: Fox, Adam, 1964-; Woolf, D. R (Daniel R.)
• Contents: Language, literacy and aspects of identity in early modern Wales / Richard Suggett and Eryn White -- The pulpit and the pen: clergy, orality and print in the Scottish Gaelic world / Donald Meek -- Speaking of history: conversations about the past in restoration and eighteenth-century England / Daniel Woolf -- Vagabonds and minstrels in sixteenth-century Wales / Richard Suggett -- Reformed folklore? Cautionary tales and oral tradition in early modern England / Alexandra Walsham -- The genealogical histories of Gaelic Scotland / Martin MacGregor -- Constructing oral tradition: the origins of the concept in enlightenment intellectual culture / Nicholas Hudson -- 'Things said or sung a thousand times': customary society and oral culture in rural England, 1700-1900 / Bob Bushaway.
• Publisher Details: Manchester New York : Manchester University Press Distributed exclusivelyin the U.S. by Palgrave
• Publication Date: 2002
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 286 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 398/.0941; Oral tradition -- Great Britain; Literature and folklore -- Great Britain; Literature and history -- Great Britain; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology; HISTORY -- General; Humanities; History; Regional and national history; European history; Language and languages; Literature and folklore; Literature and history; Manners and customs; Oral tradition; Gewoonten; Vertelkunst; Mondelinge geschiedenis (wetenschap); Great Britain -- Languages; Great Britain -- Social life and customs; Great Britain -- Languages -- History; Great Britain; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1423706315; 9781423706311; 9781847790590; 1847790593; 1280733934; 9781280733932
• Related ISBNs: 0719057469; 9780719057465; 0719057477; 9780719057472
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.