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Table of Contents
1. Where Is the Ballad? (pp. 1-24)
2. On the Nature of Evidence (pp. 25-48)
3. Textual Authority and the Sources of Variance (pp. 49-68)
4. The Material Ballad (pp. 69-88)
5. Sound and Writing (pp. 89-118)
6. Agency, Intention, and the Problem of Version: (with a brief history of ballad editing) (pp. 119-148)
7. Palimpsest or texte génétique (pp. 149-172)
8. Afterword: ‘All her friends cried out for shame’ (pp. 173-182)
