Walter Scott and Fame: Authors and Readers in the Romantic Age

ISBN-13: 9780198794820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 240 str.

Robert Mayer

Opis

Robert Mayer presents a study of correspondences between Walter Scott and socially and culturally diverse readers of his work in the English-speaking world in the early nineteenth century. He explores Scott's original constructions of authorship, reading strategies, and versions of fame in these revealing letters.

Recenzje

... in its conscientious archival research it offers an interesting new approach to Scott's reception in his lifetime.

O autorze

Robert Mayer was educated at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Oklahoma State University, where he was for many years Director of the Screen Studies Program. He is the author of History of the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe and the editor of Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Modern Philology, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, ELH, The Seventeenth Century, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He lives in New Mexico and is at work on a study of the novelist Philip Roth, the poet Philip Levine, and the filmmaker Barry Levinson.