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Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century

Stylish Books of Poetic Genius

Gerald Egan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

229 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-51825-5 (ISBN)

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One view of the author in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain held that poetic genius could reside in the lady or gentleman of fashion. Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century examines this cultural trope of genius-as-fashionista by applying an innovative mix of approaches—book history, Enlightenment and twentieth-century philosophy, visual studies, and material analyses of fashions in books and in dress—to specific editions of Alexander Pope, Mary Robinson and Lord Byron. In its material analyses of these books, Fashioning Authorship looks closely at bindings, letterforms, engravings, newspaper advertisements, correspondence, and other ephemera. In its theoretical approaches, it takes up the interventions of Locke and Kant in connection with the visual theories of Richardson, Hogarth, and Reynolds. These investigations point ultimately to a profound connection between Enlightenment formulations of subjectivity, genius, and fashion, a linkthat is relevant to the construction of celebrity in our own cultural moment.

Gerald Egan teaches in the English Department at California State University, Long Beach. His book, Fashioning Authorship: Stylish Books of Poetic Genius, was published in 2016.

1. Introduction.- 2. Freedom, Nature, and the English School of Commercial Art.- 3. The Plural Book and the Authorial Portrait.- 4. Pope's Fashionable Hand Book.- 5. Mary Robinson: Fashioning Freedom.- 6. Byron's Fashionable Abstention.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-

“Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century brings together disparate reading practices influenced by art history, book history, literary theory, close reading and twentieth-century philosophy, to analyse three poet-celebrities ranging from the early eighteenth century to the late Romantic period: Alexander Pope, Mary Robinson and Lord Byron. … This is an intriguing book that makes many convincing points about negotiating the divergent pulls of writing serious poetry and playing the fame game.” (Louise Curran, The Review of English Studies, Vol. 69 (291), September, 2018)

Erscheinungsdatum	17.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Zusatzinfo	10 Illustrations, color; 26 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-137-51825-1 / 1137518251
ISBN-13	978-1-137-51825-5 / 9781137518255
Zustand	Neuware