Authoring the self self-representation, authorship and the print market in British poetry from Pope through Wordsworth
Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain. Arguing for con...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; London :
Routledge
2005.
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| Colección: | Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433698806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth- Century British Print Market, the Author, and Romantic Hermeneutics; 2 ""Books and the Man"": Alexander Pope, Print Culture, and Authorial Self-Making; 3 ""Approach and Read"" Gray's Elegy, Print Culture, and Authorial Identity; 4 James Beattie's Minstrel and the Progress of the Poet; 5 William Cowper: The Accidental Poet and the Emerging Self; 6 ""My Office Upon Earth"": William Wordsworth, Professionalism, and Poetic Identity
- 7 Pedlars, Poets, and the Print Market: Wordsworth's Poetic Self-RepresentationEpilogue: The Romantic Deep Self as Authorial Self; Notes; Bibliography; Index
