What Is a Ballad? Reading for Genre, Format, and Medium
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Meredith L. McGill, ‘‘What Is a Ballad? Reading for Genre, Format, and Medium’’ (pp. 156–175) In this essay I show how definitions of the ballad shift as critics take into account not only the place of ballads within the genre system but also the mediation of nineteenthcentury ballads across the full range of popular and elite print formats. Arguing that the ballad is a genre that flourishes with the rise of print, I show how Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s ‘‘The Wreck of the Hesperus’’ (1840) exploits the ballad’s multimedia appeal, forgoing the fiction of folk origins and oral transmission to explore the terms of a sensationalist mass culture.
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