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Authoring the Self
Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain. Arguing for...
Published December 31st 2004 by Routledge