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Literary minstrelsy, 1770-1830 Minstrels and improvisers in British, Irish, and American literature /

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 fr...

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Main Authors: Simpson, Erik, 1972-
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the cultures of print
Subjects:
Literary studies: poetry & poets.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
Literature.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230593985
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2008.
Carrier Form: 232 p.
ISBN: 9780230200517
9780230593985 :
0230593984 :
CLC: I109.4
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.

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