Studies in ephemera : text and Image in eighteenth-century print

Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 Introduction. "Fugitive Pieces" and "Gaudy Books:" Textual, Historical, and Visual Interpretations of Ephemera in the Long Eighteenth Century Kevin D. Murphy and Sally O'Driscoll Part I: Definitions and Categorizations 2 Of Grubs and Other Insects: Constructing the Categories of "Ephemera" and "Literature" in Eighteenth-Century British Writing Paula McDowell 3 Digitizing Ephemera and Its Discontents: EBBA's Quest to Capture the Protean Broadside Ballad Patricia Fumerton 4 What Gets Printed from Oral Tradition: Anna Gordon's Ephemeral Ballads Ruth Perry 5 Approaches to Ephemera: Scottish Broadsides, 1679-1746 Adam Fox 6 Ephemera at the American Antiquarian Society: Perspectives on Commercial Life in the Long Eighteenth Century Georgia Barnhill Part II: Text and Image 7 Making Sense of Broadside Ballad Illustrations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Alexandra Franklin 8 "A Battleground Around the Crime:" The Visuality of Execution Ephemera and Its Cultural Significances in Late Seventeenth-Century England Tara Burk 9 From "The Easter Wedding" to "The Frantick Lover:" The Repeated Woodcut and Its Shifting Roles Theodore Barrow 10 What Kind of Man Do the Clothes Make? Print Culture and the Meanings of Macaroni Effeminacy Sally O'Driscoll Bibliography Index About the Contributors