Faces of Anonymity: Anonymous and Pseudonymous Publication, 1600-2000

ISBN-13: 9781349635665 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 260 str.

Robert J. Griffin; Terry Griffin; Terry Griffin

Opis

This pathbreaking collection of original essays surveys an important but neglected topic: anonymous publication in England for the Elizabethan age to the present. An impressive group of scholars analyzes a wide range of literary phenomena including: Shakespeare in 17th century commonplace books;

Spis treści

Rehearsing the Absent Name: Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets through Anonymity; M.North Death of an Author: Constructions of Pseudonymity in the Battle of the Books; K.Haugen By a Lady: The Mask of the Feminine in Restoration, Early Eighteenth Century Print Culture; M.Ezell The Author's Queer Clothes: Authorship, Sex(uality) and 'The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu'; S.Lanser More Letters by Gustavus Vasa or Olaudah Equiano?; V.Carretta The Anonymous Novel in Britain and Ireland, 1750 - 1830; J.Raven Nothing's Namelessness: Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'; S.Eilenberg The Co-authored Pseudonym: Two Women Named Michael Field; H.A.Laird From Ghostwriter to Typewriter: Delegating Authority at Fin de Siecle; L.Price A Poet May Not Exist: Mock-Hoaxes and the Construction of National Identity; B.McHale

O autorze

ROBERT J. GRIFFIN is Associate Professor of English at Tel Aviv University and the Associate Editor of Poetics Today. He is the author of Wordsworth's Pope: A Study in Literary Historiography (Cambridge, 1995) and is completing a book-length manuscript on anonymity and authorship.