Romanticism, self-canonization, and the business of poetry

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Romanticism, self-canonization, and the business of poetry

Statement of responsibility

Michael Gamer

Creator

• Gamer, Michael

Subject

• Canon (Literature)
• English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Poetry -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Romanticism -- Great Britain
• Anthologies -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

"This is the first book to examine how Romantic writers transformed poetic collections to reach new audiences. In a series of case studies, Michael Gamer shows Romantic poets to be fundamentally social authors: working closely with booksellers, intimately involved in literary production, and resolutely concerned with current readers even as they presented themselves as disinterested artists writing for posterity. Exploding the myth of Romantic poets as naive, unworldly, or unconcerned with the practical aspects of literary production, this study shows them instead to be engaged with intellectual property, profit and loss, and the power of reprinting to reshape literary reputation. Gamer offers a fresh perspective on how we think about poetic revision, placing it between aesthetic and economic registers and foregrounding the centrality of poetic collections rather than individual poems to the construction of literary careers"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in Romanticism

Series volume

114