Child's Unfinished Masterpiece: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

by Mary Ellen Brown

The premier scholar of the English-language traditional or popular ballad, Francis James Child spent decades working on his widely read and performed collection, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. In this first single author monograph of Child's life and work, Mary Ellen Brown analyzes Child's editorial methods, his decisions about which ballads to include, and his relationships with colleagues at Harvard and abroad. Brown draws on his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252035941
• ISBN13: 9780252035944
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"