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Part 3 - Nation, Place and Purpose

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2017

Paul Watt
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
Derek B. Scott
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
Patrick Spedding
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
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Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century
A Cultural History of the Songster
, pp. 159 - 241
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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