Originally published in German in 1981, and first published in English as this Cambridge edition in 1990, Natascha Wurzbach's study of the street ballad was the first to investigate a specific genre of popular literature which had previously been vastly neglected. Attention is focused on the social and cultural conditions which accompanied its development. The contemporary reputation of the street ballad is examined, as is the importance of the genre for the history of ideas. It is also looked at as a literary form. In the period from 1550 to 1650 the street ballad was a widespread and...
Originally published in German in 1981, and first published in English as this Cambridge edition in 1990, Natascha Wurzbach's study of the street ball...
