作者: Steve Newman

The humble ballad, defined in 1728 as ‘a song commonly sung up and down the streets, ‘ was widely used in elite literature in the eighteenth century and beyond. Authors ranging from John Gay to Willi …

For several decades, interest in the British Romantics’ theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic …

Ramsay’s pastoral comedy The Gentle Shepherd (1725; 1729) went through over a hundred editions, was performed many hundreds of times, and inspired a wide range of visual representations and …

Ramsay’s pastoral comedy The Gentle Shepherd (1725; 1729) went through over a hundred editions, was performed many hundreds of times, and inspired a wide range of visual representations and …