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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823686003321

Autore

Powell Manushag N

Titolo

Performing authorship in eighteenth-century English periodicals [[electronic resource] /] / Manushag N. Powell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg [PA], : Bucknell University Press

Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2012

ISBN

1-283-63894-0

1-61148-417-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Transits : literature, thought & culture

Disciplina

828/.509

Soggetti

English periodicals - History - 18th century

English prose literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Periodicals - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. AUTHOR AND EIDOLON; CHAPTER 2. EARLY PERIODICAL CROSS-DRESSING; CHAPTER 3. PERFORMANCE, MASCULINITY, AND PAPER WARS; CHAPTER 4. FEMININITY AND THE PERIODICAL; CHAPTER 5. NO ANIMAL IN NATURE SO MORTAL AS AN AUTHOR, OR, DEATH AND THE EIDOLON; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals by Manushag N. Powell embraces periodicals across the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century to argue that this mode of writing, packed with humor and verve, originates the figure of the mass-market author as a literary character. Powell posits that, at the same time, periodicals harbor inescapable doubts as to whether such a character, and by extension their own genre, is sustainable in the long term.