The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England (Paperback)

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Paperback. 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. The emergence of the author and the development of literary authority, through literary biography 1400 1800. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Título

The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England (Paperback)

Editor

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Fecha de publicación

2005

Idioma

Inglés

ISBN 10

0521020921

ISBN 13

9780521020923

Encuadernación

Paperback

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new

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