The Emergence of the English Author : Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England Paperback / softback
by Kevin Pask
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages, 6 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/10/2005
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- ISBN:9780521020923
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages, 6 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/10/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521020923
