Authoring the Self : Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth

ISBN-13: 9780415971287 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 404 str.

Scott Hess

Opis

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. Starting with an overview of eighteenth-century developments and their impact of authorship, this book explores the construction of personal and poetic identity in the writing of Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Cowper, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth. 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.