Literary minstrelsy, 1770-1830 : minstrels and improvisers in British, Irish, and American literature / Erik Simpson
- 作者： Simpson, Erik 1972-
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- 出版： Basingstoke [England] ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2008
- 叢書名： Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism, and cultures of print
- 主題： English literature--19th century--History and criticism , Minstrels in literature , English literature--18th century--History and criticism , English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism. , American literature--19th century--History and criticism. , Authorship in literature. , Romanticism
- ISBN： 9780230593985 、 0230593984
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- 書目註：Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830 argues that Romantic-era writers usedthe figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social, responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone genius. Simpson demonstrates that the minstrel was central to developments as varied as the introduction of the word 'improvisation' into English through portrayals of Italian improvisers, the rivalry between Wordsworth and Byron in the 1810s, and the emergence of poems that dramatized ancient minstrel contests to address the competitive dynamics of the literary marketplace. Reading The Last of the Mohicans alongside a wide range of materials from early nineteenth-century print culture, the book's final chapter draws out the project's implications forthe emergence oftransatlantic blackface minstrelsy in the 1830s and 1840s Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-208) and index
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This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social, responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone genius. Simpson highlights the centrality of the minstrel to many important literary developments from the Romantic era through to the 1840s.
內容註
The minstrel mode -- The minstrel in the world : Sydney Owenson and Irish internationalism --'The minstrels of modern Italy' : Germaine deSta癡el, improvisation, and myths of Corinne -- The minstrel and Regency Romanticism : James Beattie and the rivalry of Byron and Wordsworth -- The minstrelgoes to market : the prizes and contests of James Hogg, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Felicia Hermans -- The 'minstrel of the western continent' : The last of the Mohicans and transatlantic minstrelsy before blackface