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This book explores the varied vernacular forms and rich oral traditions which were such a part of popular culture in early modern England. It focuses, in particular, upon dialect speech and proverbial wisdom, "old wives' tales" and children's lore, historical legends and local customs, scurrilous versifying and scandalous rumour-mongering. Adam Fox argues that while the spoken word provides the most vivid insight into the mental world of the majority in this semi-literate society, it was by no means untouched by written influences. Even at the beginning of the period, centuries of reciprocal infusion between complementary media had created a cultural repertoire which had long ceased to be purely oral. Thereafter, the expansion of literacy together with the proliferation of texts both in manuscript and print saw the rapid acceleration and elaboration of this process. By 1700 popular traditions and modes of expression were the product of a fundamentally literate environment to a much greater extent than has yet been appreciated.

English literature --- Popular culture --- Oral tradition --- Popular literature --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- History and criticism. --- History --- England --- Social life and customs

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The growing importance of visual culture is seen in many aspects of society - television, dance, film, fashion, painting, sculpture, installation and fine art - to name but a few. Feminist Visual Culture looks at the contribution of feminist theory and practice in these media and considers the place women have and the role that they play. Written by women working in the field of visual culture they draw on examples and situations from everyday life.A substantial introduction defines Visual Culture as well as providing an historic overview of the origins of current academic and feminist practice. The volume is divided into three sections: Fine Art, Design and Mass Media. Each section begins with a contextualising Introduction and then discusses the visual media specific to that area, incorporating wider issues such as class, culture and ethnicity. A range of methods and analyses are adopted including questionnaire sampling, in-depth case studies, historiographical overview of theoretical material as well as writing about current practices.Feminist Visual Culture is a topical and comprehensive overview of this field providing both introductory access to the key debates and a more specialist understanding of their relevance within a specific medium.

Art --- Mass communications --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of culture --- Feminism and the arts. --- Visual communication. --- Popular culture. --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Arts and feminism --- Arts --- Feminist art --- Media --- Theory --- Design --- Book

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Authors and Audiences reveals the cultural milieu that gave rise to the golden age of hardcover fiction. Karr describes the relationships between authors, literary agents, and publishers in Toronto, London, New York, and other centres; examines the relationship between authors and the movie industry; and discusses the reception of fiction by critics and readers. This is the first Canadian study to use fan mail to highlight readers' interactions with author and text. Karr places the authors' careers in an international setting and shows how, despite living a considerable distance from the leading cultural production centres of New York and London, they became internationally recognized and read.

Popular literature --- Literature, Popular --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- History and criticism. --- Canadian fiction --- Authors and readers --- History --- Readers and authors --- Authorship --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Roman canadien --- Ecrivains et lecteurs --- Paralittérature --- Culture populaire --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire

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Popular culture --- Festivals --- Folklore --- Culture populaire --- Fêtes --- Performance --- Interprétation --- Venezuela --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales --- #SBIB:316.7C140 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Cultuursociologie: cultuur en globale samenlevingen --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Azië

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Curiosities and wonders --- -Curiosities and wonders --- -Eccentrics and eccentricities --- -England --- -Marginality, Social --- -Popular culture --- Popular culture --- #BIBC:ruil --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Cranks (Persons) --- Eccentricities --- Fixed ideas --- Characters and characteristics --- Personality --- Enigmas --- Facts, Miscellaneous --- Miscellaneous facts --- Oddities --- Trivia --- Wonders --- History --- -History --- -17th century --- Social life and customs --- Eccentrics and eccentricities --- Marginality, Social --- Culture --- England --- Angleterre --- Excentriques et excentricites --- Curiosites et merveilles --- Marginalite --- Culture populaire --- Moeurs et coutumes --- 16e siecle --- Histoire --- 17e siecle