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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 extensive correspondence with collaborators to trace the production of his monumental work from conception and selection through organization and collation of the ballads. Child's Unfinished Masterpiece shows readers what was at stake in Child's search for original manuscript materials housed at libraries and estates far afield and his desire to uncover unedited versions of previous editors' texts. In analyzing Child's letters, Brown also delves into his important network of collaborators, scholars, and friends such as William Macmath, Sven Grundtvig, James Russell Lowell, and Charles Eliot Norton, who influenced the organization and content of his work. Readers learn about the questions Child faced as an editor: whether the materials he gathered were authentic, whether a piece was more ballad or a song, or whether the text was sufficiently old or traditional. In showing Child's struggles with content and organization for The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Brown notes the difficulty in defining the ballad genre while also showing that a clear definition is not a fatal flaw of the volume or to scholars' continued study of it.… (mais)
waltzmn: Mary Ellen Brown's book covers the gestation of Francis James Child's monumental work; D. K. Wilgus's authoritative volume examines the half century after Child. Anyone who owns the former should have the latter -- which, among other things, reviews the muddy definition of a ballad used by Child.… (mais)
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This was a book that needed to be written. Or, rather, it is part of such a book. Unfortunately, we're still missing the other part.
The part that needs to be written is a biography of Francis James Child. Brown gives us about fifty pages of biography -- probably the best now available, but not enough. For example, there are hints that Child was autistic. But Brown does not give enough information to be confident about the conclusion (and never mentions autism herself).
The second, and larger, part of the book examines Child's work on his monumental publication The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. This too is a vital project, but the text tends to degenerate into a collection of quotes from letters between Child and his collaborators. The narrative flow is too easily lost. A simple collection of letters, with introductions, might have served better.
Both parts of the book are vital. Both deserve more space. If ever there is a second edition of this work, it could become a true classic. As it is, the biography is too short and the rest too incoherent for greatness. Sad, because, even in its current state, this is a unique and irreplaceable book. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
To the memory of Janie and Evans Brown and, as always, for Perrin and Torrence
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Prelude The Project
The ubiquity of references to Child ballads in the periodical press and in scholarly presentations amply shows that this nineteenth-century work of scholarship has come to have a cultural valence, to name o collection of texts if not a definitive category of poetry.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
It is, in fact, an unfinished nineteenth-century masterpiece of scholarship.
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Note that this is a book about Francis James Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, not an edition of that publication (usually distributed as a five-volume set).
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
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 extensive correspondence with collaborators to trace the production of his monumental work from conception and selection through organization and collation of the ballads. Child's Unfinished Masterpiece shows readers what was at stake in Child's search for original manuscript materials housed at libraries and estates far afield and his desire to uncover unedited versions of previous editors' texts. In analyzing Child's letters, Brown also delves into his important network of collaborators, scholars, and friends such as William Macmath, Sven Grundtvig, James Russell Lowell, and Charles Eliot Norton, who influenced the organization and content of his work. Readers learn about the questions Child faced as an editor: whether the materials he gathered were authentic, whether a piece was more ballad or a song, or whether the text was sufficiently old or traditional. In showing Child's struggles with content and organization for The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Brown notes the difficulty in defining the ballad genre while also showing that a clear definition is not a fatal flaw of the volume or to scholars' continued study of it.
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The part that needs to be written is a biography of Francis James Child. Brown gives us about fifty pages of biography -- probably the best now available, but not enough. For example, there are hints that Child was autistic. But Brown does not give enough information to be confident about the conclusion (and never mentions autism herself).
The second, and larger, part of the book examines Child's work on his monumental publication The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. This too is a vital project, but the text tends to degenerate into a collection of quotes from letters between Child and his collaborators. The narrative flow is too easily lost. A simple collection of letters, with introductions, might have served better.
Both parts of the book are vital. Both deserve more space. If ever there is a second edition of this work, it could become a true classic. As it is, the biography is too short and the rest too incoherent for greatness. Sad, because, even in its current state, this is a unique and irreplaceable book. (