Authoring the Self

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hess, Scott, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Taylor & Francis 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century British Print Market, the Author, and Romantic Hermeneutics
  • Chapter 2: Books and the Man I Sing: Alexander Pope, Print Culture, and Authorical Self-Making
  • Chapter 3: Thomas Gray and the Elegy : Ambivalent Authorship and Uncertain Self
  • Chapter 4: James Beattie's Minstrel and the Displace Authorial Self
  • Chapter 5: William Cowper: The Accidental Poet and the Emerging Self
  • Chapter 6: The Mariner as Author and the Wedding Guest as Reader: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere as a Dramatization of Print Circulation and the Construction of Authorial Identity
  • Chapter 7: Wordsworth's Epitaphic Poetics, Authorial Self-Representation, and the Print Market
  • Chapter 8: Wordsworth and the Authorial Self.