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…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…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…”

“…This study explores almost a century of the English history of madness through the texts of five poets who were considered mentally troubled according to contemporary standards: James Carkesse, Anne Finch, William Collins, Christopher Smart and William Cowper were hospitalized, sequestered or exiled from society. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Christopher Smart (1722-1771)Hymn to the Supreme Being, on Recovery from a Dangerous Fit of Illness; from "Jubilate Agno," Fragment B; Thomas Warton (1728-1790); from "The Pleasures of Melancholy"; William Cowper (1731-1800); Lines Written During a Period of Insanity; The Shrubbery, Written in a Time of Affliction; Anonymous (published 1733); A Receipt to Cure a Loves Fit; Robert Fergusson (1750-1774); Ode to Disappointment; Anonymous (published 1751); Strip Me Naked, or Royal Gin for Ever. …”

“…Each chapter investigates different moments in the American crisis through the analysis of scenes of social and theatrical performance and through careful readings of works by figures such as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, William Cowper, Hannah More, Arthur Murphy, Hannah Cowley, George Colman, and Georg Friedrich Handel. …”