Authoring the Self.
Drawing 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 con...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis,
2005.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Drawing 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. |
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| Item Description: | OAPEN Library |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780203005002 0203005007 9780415762717 0415762715 9780415971287 0415971284 9781135875114 1135875111 9781135875152 1135875154 9781135875169 1135875162 |
