ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |26 pages
Introduction
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chapter Chapter One|26 pages
The Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century British Print Market, the Author, and Romantic Hermeneutics
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chapter Chapter Two|33 pages
“Books and the Man”: Alexander Pope, Print Culture, and Authorial Self-Making
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chapter Chapter Three|19 pages
“Approach and Read”: Gray's Elegy, Print Culture, and Authorial Identity
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chapter Chapter Four|24 pages
James Beattie's Minstrel and the Progress of the Poet
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chapter Chapter Five|32 pages
William Cowper: The Accidental Poet and the Emerging Self
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chapter Chapter Six|29 pages
“My Office Upon Earth”: William Wordsworth, Professionalism, and Poetic Identity
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chapter Chapter Seven|32 pages
Pedlars, Poets, and the Print Market: Wordsworth's Poetic Self-Representation
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