The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England

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Cambridge University Press, 8 aug. 1996 - 218 sidor
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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The mannes state of Philip Sidney
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Sidney and Spenser
83
Dr Donne in literary culture
113
Miltons daughters
141

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