Jack-in-the-Green

Description

M.A. study in four sections. The first offers a definition of the Jack-in-the-Green, whilst the second examines the historical context that lay behind the early use of the term around 1800, and considers also different types of May Day activity and their relationship with each other. Sections follow on the milkmaid, bunter, chimney sweep, Jack-in-the-Green, and the garland and the Jack. The third section contains two standard descriptive accounts of Jack-in-the-Green activity, the first by William Hone(1825), the second by Charles Dickens (1836). These are followed by sections which discuss the custom as an expected phenomenon, its audience, the Climbing Boys and the myth of the lost Climbing Boy. The final section discusses the development of the custom, its decline and its causes, vulgarity and Arcadianism, Jack in Arcady and interpretation. A geographical index, distribution map and photocopied illustrations are also included.

Metadata

Identifier vghkx6pg
IRN 409954
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/1/058
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/vghkx6pg
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Postgraduate Theses and Dissertations
Creator(s) Judge, Roy
Date 1975
Size and Medium 156 unbound typed leaves; 43 photocopied illustrations. Copy.

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