Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture: The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England Series Number 12
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture: The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England Series Number 12
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 ...
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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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Publisher:
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1996).
Published:
1996
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12675323882
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Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. x, 211 pp. Original black cloth binding. This is an unread, near fine book (small bump top edge) in a bright, fine DJ.
