Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century
Stylish Books of Poetic Genius
Seiten
2017
|
1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-51825-5 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-51825-5 (ISBN)
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.-
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; XVII, 229 p. 36 illus., 10 illus. in color. |
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 |
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
Poetik eines sozialen Urteils
Buch | Hardcover (2023)
De Gruyter (Verlag)
CHF 83,90