The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780521020923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 232 str.

Kevin Pask; Stephen Orgel; Anne Barton

Opis

The historical construction of authorship is of enormous interest to scholars and critics. Yet an important aspect of the historical emergence of the author--the literary biography or "life of the poet"--has received scant attention. In The Emergence of the English Author, Kevin Pask offers the first full-scale history of the cultural construction of literary authority in early modern England, and studies the early life-narratives of major English poets Chaucer, Sidney, Spenser, Donne and Milton.