The Emergence of the English Author : Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England
by
Kevin Pask
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521020921
ISBN-13
9780521020923
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 6th, 2005
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
350 grams
Dimensions
22.70 x 15.10 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
16th century, c 1500 to c 159917th century, c 1600 to c 1699PoetryPoetry / Poems
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The literary biography, or 'life of the poet', is vital to an understanding of the historical emergence of the author. Kevin Pask offers the first full-scale history of the cultural construction of literary authority in early modern England, and studies the early life-narratives of Chaucer, Sidney, Spenser, Donne and Milton.
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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