Constructing Coleridge: The Posthumous Life of the Author
Alan D. Vardy
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Description for Constructing Coleridge: The Posthumous Life of the Author
Hardcover. Constructing Coleridge examines Coleridge's penchant for re-invention and carefully demonstrates how the Coleridge family editors followed his lead in constructing his posthumous reputation. Following his death in 1834, the family editors faced immediate scandals and sought to construct the Coleridge they preferred in these trying circumstances. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
Constructing Coleridge examines Coleridge's penchant for re-invention and carefully demonstrates how the Coleridge family editors followed his lead in constructing his posthumous reputation. Following his death in 1834, the family editors faced immediate scandals and sought to construct the Coleridge they preferred in these trying circumstances.
Constructing Coleridge examines Coleridge's penchant for re-invention and carefully demonstrates how the Coleridge family editors followed his lead in constructing his posthumous reputation. Following his death in 1834, the family editors faced immediate scandals and sought to construct the Coleridge they preferred in these trying circumstances.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230574809
SKU
V9780230574809
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99-15
About Alan D. Vardy
ALAN VARDY is an Associate Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. He is the author of John Clare, Politics and Poetry (Palgrave, 2003). He lives with his family in Cold Spring, New York.
Reviews for Constructing Coleridge: The Posthumous Life of the Author
'Alan Vardy has written an absorbing study about the making of Coleridge both about Coleridge's own attempts to forge an image of himself for public consumption, and also about the ways in which his family and followers sought to re-create him in various ways during his long posthumous afterlife. Vardy tells his story with great scholarship and sympathy, in a ... Read more