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

ISBN-13: 9780415762717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 404 str.

Scott Hess

Opis

Arguing for continuity between 18th 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.