Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830 - Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature

Informationen zum Autor ERIK SIMPSON teaches in the English Department of Grinnell College, USA.  Klappentext This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social! responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone genius. Simpson highlights the centrality of the minstrel to many important literary developments from the Romantic era through to the 1840s. Zusammenfassung This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social! responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone genius. Simpson highlights the centrality of the minstrel to many important literary developments from the Romantic era through to the 1840s. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables The Minstrel Mode The Minstrel in the World: International Minstrelsy and Sydney Owenson 'The Minstrels of Modern Italy': Corinne , Improvisation, and Minstrel Writing The Minstrel and Regency Romanticism: Beattie, Byron, and Wordsworth The Minstrel Goes to Market: Prize Poems and Minstrel Contests The 'Minstrel of the Western Continent': The Last of the Mohicans and Transatlantic Minstrelsy before Blackface Works Cited Index

List of contents

List of tables The Minstrel Mode The Minstrel in the World: International Minstrelsy and Sydney Owenson 'The Minstrels of Modern Italy': Corinne , Improvisation, and Minstrel Writing The Minstrel and Regency Romanticism: Beattie, Byron, and Wordsworth The Minstrel Goes to Market: Prize Poems and Minstrel Contests The 'Minstrel of the Western Continent': The Last of the Mohicans and Transatlantic Minstrelsy before Blackface Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: E Simpson, E. Simpson
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.11.2008
• EAN: 9781349299232
• ISBN: 978-1-349-29923-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print; Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; B, Poetry, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection