Overview
- Takes an original approach that combines literary criticism and the study of material culture
- Speaks to the field of celebrity studies
- Examines the work of three prominent eighteenth-century writers
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print (PERCP)
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“A stunning, unique study that blends expansive theoretical inquiry and intellectual history with detailed examinations of the material forms of Pope's, Robinson's, and Byron's poetic editions during their lives (right down to the level of physical pages and typography, with special attention to the poets' frontispiece portraits). Egan shows how books at the time were media forms for a new kind of intellectual subjectivity poised between "genius" and "celebrity." Contributing to our contemporary exploration of the unexpected vitality of artifacts, objects, and "media archaeology," the study traces surprising connections between the material history of books, the image of the poets' physical bodies, and the immaterial force of "mind."” (Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara)
“This is a fascinating book that draws on art history, literary studies, disability studies and the history of the book to re-examine the rise of the ‘celebrity poet’ in the long eighteenth century. Its close focus on Alexander Pope, Mary Robinson and Lord Byron gives Egan’s argument an impressive historical scope, and demonstrates the evolving ways in which poets constructed their image for public consumption in a rapidly developing literary marketplace. Drawing on remarkable details about the material conditions of production for several key poetic texts, this book is an excellent demonstration of why book history matters to how we think about poets and their poetry.” (Olivia Murphy, University of Sydney, Australia)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gerald Egan teaches in the English Department at California State University, Long Beach. His book, Fashioning Authorship: Stylish Books of Poetic Genius, was published in 2016.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century
Book Subtitle: Stylish Books of Poetic Genius
Authors: Gerald Egan
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51826-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51825-5Published: 18 January 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51826-2Published: 10 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6516
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6524
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 229
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature