Thursday, May 18, 2006

Street Literature Online

Miriam Jones has recently posted a fascinating page in the scribblingwoman blog devoted to online resources on ballads, broadsides and chapbooks - the street literature published between the 16th and 19th centuries. Many of the sites feature high resolution images that enable close scrutiny of both text and illustrations, and allow the scurrilous contents to be easily read:
www.unbsj.ca/arts/english/jones/mt/archives/2006/05/street_literature_online.html