Dianne Dugaw's Books

These memoirs all come from women forced to live lives of impropriety, often after ill-treatment from unscrupulous men. Their tales of survival in the face of extreme hardship and privations make inspirational and compelling reading.

Originally published in 1995. This book’s collection of key essays presents a coherent overview of touchstone statements and issues in the study of Anglo-American popular ballad traditions and suggests ways this panoramic view affords us a look at Euro-American scholarship’s questions, concerns and methods. The study of ballads in English began early in the eighteenth century with Joseph Addison’s discussions which marked the onset of an aesthetic and scholarly interest in popular traditions. Therefore the collection begins with him and then chronologically includes scholars whose views mark pivotal moments which taken together tell a story that does not emerge through an examination of the ballads themselves. The book addresses debates in tradition, orality, performance and community as well as national genealogies and connections to contexts. Each selected piece is pre-empted by an introductory section on its importance and relevance.

Deep Play" examines the emergence of modern self- and social-consciousness in eighteenth-century Britain as an awareness of class and culture. It examines popular ballads and songs, country dances, catches, mumming plays, beliefs and sayings, fables, stories, and legends as these plebeian cultural materials are brought by Gay to comment on "polite" opera, drama, and literature. Illustrated.

Masquerading as a man, seeking adventure, going to war or to sea for love and glory, the transvestite heroine flourished in all kinds of literature, especially ballads, from the Renaissance to the Victorian age. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850 identifies this heroine and her significance as a figure in folklore, and as a representative of popular culture, prompting important reevaluations of gender and sexuality. Dugaw has uncovered a fascination with women cross-dressers in the popular literature of early modern Europe and America. Surveying a wide range of Anglo-American texts from popular ballads and chapbook life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic literature, she demonstrates the extent to which gender and sexuality are enacted as constructs of history.

Book's by Dianne Dugaw

Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 5

Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 5

Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 2

Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 2

The Anglo-American Ballad

The Anglo-American Ballad

Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 3

Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 3

Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 1

Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 1

"Deep Play"

"Deep Play"

Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850

Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850

Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 5

Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 5

Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 1

Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 1

Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 2

Memoirs of Scandalous Women, Volume 2

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