David Hopkin

Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An innovative study revealing that folklore collections can shed new light on the lives of the socially marginalized.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 607g
• ISBN-13: 9780521519366
• ISBN-10: 0521519365
• Artikelnr.: 34882849

Autorenporträt

David Hopkin is Fellow and Tutor in History at Hertford College, Oxford. His research concentrates on the oral and popular cultures of nineteenth-century Europe. He is editor of the journal Cultural and Social History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: folklore and the historian
1. Storytelling in a maritime community: Saint-Cast, 1879-82
2. The sailor's tale: storytelling on board the North Atlantic fishing fleet
3. Love riddles and family strategies: the Dâyemans of Lorraine
4. Storytelling and family dynamics in an extended household: the Briffaults of Montigny-aux-Amognes
5. Work songs and peasant visions of the social order
6. The visionary world of the Vellave lacemaker
Conclusion: between the micro and the macro
Bibliography.