‘The Drunkard’s Raggit Wean’: Broadside Culture and the Politics of Temperance Verse
This article examines the circulation of a well-known temperance poem and song by Glasgow poet John Crawford, ‘The Drunkard’s Raggit Wean’, considering its function as a broadside and its reprinting in the newspaper press and other venues. It argues for the significance and continued popularity of b...
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| description | This article examines the circulation of a well-known temperance poem and song by Glasgow poet John Crawford, ‘The Drunkard’s Raggit Wean’, considering its function as a broadside and its reprinting in the newspaper press and other venues. It argues for the significance and continued popularity of broadsides in the mid-Victorian period, and highlights the importance of temperance verse in this period’s popular culture. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0a8dc0dc4dae47659907d423ad94a5d02022-12-21T23:00:25ZengPresses Universitaires de la MéditerranéeCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens0220-56102271-61492016-11-0110.4000/cve.2918‘The Drunkard’s Raggit Wean’: Broadside Culture and the Politics of Temperance VerseKirstie BlairThis article examines the circulation of a well-known temperance poem and song by Glasgow poet John Crawford, ‘The Drunkard’s Raggit Wean’, considering its function as a broadside and its reprinting in the newspaper press and other venues. It argues for the significance and continued popularity of broadsides in the mid-Victorian period, and highlights the importance of temperance verse in this period’s popular culture.http://journals.openedition.org/cve/2918poetrybroadsidenewspapertemperanceScottish |
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| title | ‘The Drunkard’s Raggit Wean’: Broadside Culture and the Politics of Temperance Verse |
| title_full | ‘The Drunkard’s Raggit Wean’: Broadside Culture and the Politics of Temperance Verse |
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