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Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century: Stylish Books of Poetic Genius
Gerald Egan
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Description for Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century: Stylish Books of Poetic Genius
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 229 pages, 26 black & white illustrations, 10 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; ACQ; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
This book examines a singular cultural formation of the long eighteenth century, the poetic genius who was also a lady or gentleman of fashion. It applies an innovative mix of approaches - book history, Enlightenment and twentieth-century philosophy, visual studies, and material analyses of fashions in books and in dress - to specific editions of Alexander Pope, Mary Robinson and Lord Byron. In its material analyses of these books, this study looks closely at bindings, letterforms, engravings, newspaper advertisements, correspondence, and other ephemera. In its theoretical approaches, it takes up the interventions of Locke and Kant in connection with the ... Read more
This book examines a singular cultural formation of the long eighteenth century, the poetic genius who was also a lady or gentleman of fashion. It applies an innovative mix of approaches - book history, Enlightenment and twentieth-century philosophy, visual studies, and material analyses of fashions in books and in dress - to specific editions of Alexander Pope, Mary Robinson and Lord Byron. In its material analyses of these books, this study looks closely at bindings, letterforms, engravings, newspaper advertisements, correspondence, and other ephemera. In its theoretical approaches, it takes up the interventions of Locke and Kant in connection with the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
Number of Pages
229
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137518255
SKU
V9781137518255
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About Gerald Egan
Gerald Egan is Lecturer in English at California State University, Long Beach, USA. His research interests include British Romanticism and the long eighteenth century, Enlightenment philosophy, visual culture, and theories of fashion. He is currently working on an edited collection on fashion and literary authorship from the eighteenth century to the present.
Reviews for Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century: Stylish Books of Poetic Genius
Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century brings together disparate reading practices influenced by art history, book history, literary theory, close reading and twentieth-century philosophy, to analyse three poet-celebrities ranging from the early eighteenth century to the late Romantic period: Alexander Pope, Mary Robinson and Lord Byron. ... This is an intriguing book that makes many convincing points about negotiating ... Read more