The Romantic author is often portrayed as spontaneous, extemporizing, otherworldly, and alone. Zachary Leader argues that this influential fiction is much in need of revision. Romantic attitudes to authorship profess a preference for what comes naturally, with a concomitant devaluing of secondary processes, including second thoughts, yet many Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Coleridge, Clare, and Mary Shelley revised their works. Revision and Romantic Authorship looks at the revisionary practices of these writers, showing that second thoughts (including those of...
The Romantic author is often portrayed as spontaneous, extemporizing, otherworldly, and alone. Zachary Leader argues that this influential fiction is ...
Romantic Period Writings 1798-1832 provides a valuable insight into the condition of Britain in the early part of the nineteenth century. It includes original documents from a range of disciplines and discourses. Each section includes a scholarly introduction, select bibliography, and annotations. Among the material assembled in the anthology are writings by previously neglected or under-represented women, working-class men, black radicals, and conservative and evangelical polemicists, as well as several unfamiliar texts by canonical writers. The writings are organised into...
Romantic Period Writings 1798-1832 provides a valuable insight into the condition of Britain in the early part of the nineteenth century. It ...
This text aims to provide an insight into the condition of Britain in the early part of the 19th century. It includes original documents from a range of disciplines and discourses. Among the material assembled in the anthology are writings by previously neglected or under-represented women, working-class men, and Black radicals, as well as several unfamiliar texts by canonical writiers. The writings are organized into sections on radical journalism; political economy; atheism; nation and state; race and empire; gender; and literary institutions.
This text aims to provide an insight into the condition of Britain in the early part of the 19th century. It includes original documents from a range ...
Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but also a dominant figure in post World War II British writing as a novelist, poet, critic, and polemicist. Zachary Leader s definitive, authorized biography conjures in vivid detail the life of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century literature, renowned for his blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness of opinion. In The Life of Kingsley Amis, Leader, the acclaimed editor of The Letters of Kingsley Amis, draws not only on published and unpublished works and correspondence,...
Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but also a dominant figure in post World War II British writing as a novelist,...
First appearing in 1981, this book was the first full-length study of the "Songs of Innocence and Experience "to be published in almost fifteen years. The book provides detailed readings of each poem and its accompanying design, to redirect attention to the nature and achievement of the book as a whole, to "Songs" as a single, carefully unified work of verbal and visual art. Particularly close attention is paid, not only to the designs Blake etched to accompany his poems, but also to the many books and treatises for and about children to which, it is argued, "Songs "alludes or is indebted....
First appearing in 1981, this book was the first full-length study of the "Songs of Innocence and Experience "to be published in almost fifteen yea...
First appearing in 1981, this book was the first full-length study of the Songs of Innocence and Experience to be published in almost fifteen years. The book provides detailed readings of each poem and its accompanying design, to redirect attention to the nature and achievement of the book as a whole, to Songs as a single, carefully unified work of verbal and visual art. Particularly close attention is paid, not only to the designs Blake etched to accompany his poems, but also to the many books and treatises for and about children to which, it is argued, Songs alludes...
First appearing in 1981, this book was the first full-length study of the Songs of Innocence and Experience to be published in almost fiftee...
'Life-writing' is a generic term meant to encompass a range of writings about lives or parts of lives, or which provide materials out of which lives or parts of lives are composed. These writings include not only memoir, autobiography, biography, diaries, autobiographical fiction, and biographical fiction, but letters, writs, wills, written anecdotes, depositions, marginalia, lyric poems, scientific and historical writings, and digital forms (including blogs, tweets, Facebook entries). On Life-Writing offers a sampling of approaches to the study of life-writing, introducing readers...
'Life-writing' is a generic term meant to encompass a range of writings about lives or parts of lives, or which provide materials out of which lives o...
Explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing.
Explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography...
