English Literary Afterlives - Greene, Sidney, Donne and the Evolution of Posthumous Fame

English Literary Afterlives is a study about the ways in which readers and publishers reshaped (or even created) early modern authorial careers in the wake of the authors' deaths. Through a series of case-studies it presents a counter-narrative to the established idea of authorial self-fashioning.

List of contents

List of figures
Introduction
1 The complete author
2 The posthumous career of Robert Greene
3 'Borne in Arcady': Sidney's literary rebirth
Interlude: 'After I am dead and rotten': Spenser's missing afterlife
4 Walton's literary Lives: from Donne to Herbert
Conclusion: brief lives and lives of the poets
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Elisabeth Chaghafi is a Lecturer in English at Tübingen University.

Summary

English Literary Afterlives is a study about the ways in which readers and publishers reshaped (or even created) early modern authorial careers in the wake of the authors’ deaths. Through a series of case-studies it presents a counter-narrative to the established idea of authorial self-fashioning. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Elisabeth Chaghafi
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781526144959
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4495-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: The Manchester Spenser
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies