Yorkshire Chap-Books (Classic Reprint)
| Preis: | 19.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
| Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Federer, Charles A.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Yorkshire Chap-Books Chap-book literature, viz, the pamphlets, ballads, and broadsides, sold by chapmen or chafferers at fairs and markets, or hawked by them from house to house in the country, composed the only literature accessible to the mass of the people during the centuries anterior to the present. There can be no question that this literature possesses the highest interest for the student of the social, religious, and political state of our forefathers: Macaulay and Green have entirely re-written our history with the aid of a mass of political broadsides, ballads, and squibs; and it is a well-known fact that the French revolution of 1789 was prepared by the dissemination of immense multitudes of popular tracts; nor can it be denied that the social conceptions of our own peasantry were, till a recent period, mainly based upon the kind of literature which reached it through the agency of the pedlar. Chapbook literature catered for the intellectual wants of the lower and the middle classes of the people, and by it the nature of those wants, in other words, the predilections and the common bent of the popular mind can be accurately gauged. At a time when our laws, oppressive and cruel in their nature, pressed with peculiar harshness on the labourer, who was a serf in all but the name, and on the poor toilers of every description, there naturally existed a good deal of sympathy with the bold outlaw, and a sneaking admiration even for the dashing highwayman, who professed to redress social inequalities by robbing the rich and relieving the poor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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