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THE EMERGENCE OF THE ENGLISH AUTHOR
SCRIPTING THE LIFE OF THE POET IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND |
| By: |
Kevin Pask, Stephen Orgel, Anne Barton |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521020921 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521020923 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
13 July, 2005 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture No. 12 |
| Pages: |
232 |
| Description: |
The emergence of the author and the development of literary authority, through literary biography 1400-1800. |
| Synopsis: |
The historical construction of literary authorship has long been of particular interest to literary scholars. 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 studies the early life-narratives of five now-canonical English poets: Geoffrey Chaucer, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Donne and John Milton. By attending to the changing shape of the lives of these poets, Pask produces a history of the developing conception of literary authorship in England from the late medieval period to the end of the eighteenth century, and offers a long-term sociological account of literary production. His book is the first full-scale history of the cultural construction of literary authority in early modern England. |
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6 b/w illus. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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