Authoring the Self

Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-97128-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

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 continuity between eighteenth-century literature and the rise of Romanticism, this groundbreaking book traces the influence of new print market conditions on the development of the Romantic poetic self.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hess, Scott

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Scott Hess is Assistant Professor of English at Earlham College, where he also teaches Environmental Studies courses. He has published essays on Romantic and eighteenth-century literature, print culture, authorship, and the environment in Nineteenth Century Studies, The Age of Johnson, European Romantic Review, and International Studies in Literature and Environment.