03394nam 2200685Ia 450 991034824100332120210214100011.01-135-87515-41-282-32018-197866123201870-203-00500-7(CKB)1000000000248016(EBL)201237(OCoLC)475914151(SSID)ssj0000107752(PQKBManifestationID)11138528(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107752(PQKBWorkID)10036534(PQKB)11501412(MiAaPQ)EBC201237(EXLCZ)99100000000024801620040521d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAuthoring the self[electronic resource] self-representation, authorship and the print market in British poetry from Pope through Wordsworth /Scott HessNew York ;London Routledge20051 online resource (325 p.)Literary criticism and cultural theoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-76271-5 0-415-97128-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteeth- Century British Print Market, the Author, and Romantic Hermeneutics; 2 ""Books and the Man"": Alexander Pope, Print Culture, and Authorial Self-Making; 3 ""Approach and Read"" Gray's Elegy, Print Culture, and Authorial Identity; 4 James Beattie's Minstrel and the Progress of the Poet; 5 William Cowper: The Accidental Poet and the Emerging Self; 6 ""My Office Upon Earth"": William Wordsworth, Professionalism, and Poetic Identity7 Pedlars, Poets, and the Print Market: Wordsworth's Poetic Self-RepresentationEpilogue: The Romantic Deep Self as Authorial Self; Notes; Bibliography; IndexDrawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain. Arguing for continuity between eighteenth-century literature and the rise of Romanticism, this groundbreaking book traces the influence of new print market conditions on the development of the Romantic poetic self.Literary criticism and cultural theory.English poetry18th centuryHistory and criticismSelf in literatureRomanticismGreat BritainPopular literatureGreat BritainHistory and criticismLiterature publishingGreat BritainHistory18th centuryElectronic books.English poetryHistory and criticism.Self in literature.RomanticismPopular literatureHistory and criticism.Literature publishingHistory821.009821.709384Hess Scott785146MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910348241003321Authoring the self2084418UNINA