Street Songs: Writers and urban songs and cries, 1800-1925 (Clarendon Lectures in English) 2018947080, 9780198792352, 0198792352

This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cr

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Street Songs: Writers and urban songs and cries, 1800-1925 (Clarendon Lectures in English)
2018947080, 9780198792352, 0198792352

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