Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France

ISBN-13: 9781316635568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 312 str.

David Hopkin

Opis

An innovative study revealing that folklore collections can shed new light on the lives of the socially marginalized.

Recenzje

'This thought-provoking book deserves a wide audience and I am keen to read the fruits of Hopkin's 'exhortation to historians'.' Alison Carrol, European History Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction: folklore and the historian; 1. Storytelling in a maritime community: Saint-Cast, 1879–82; 2. The sailor's tale: storytelling on board the North Atlantic fishing fleet; 3. Love riddles and family strategies: the Dâyemans of Lorraine; 4. Storytelling and family dynamics in an extended household: the Briffaults of Montigny-aux-Amognes; 5. Work songs and peasant visions of the social order; 6. The visionary world of the Vellave lacemaker; Conclusion: between the micro and the macro; Bibliography.