Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830: Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature

Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830: Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature
ISBN-10
0230200516
ISBN-13
9780230200517
Category
Literary Criticism / General
Pages
215
Language
English
Published
2008-11-20
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Author
Erik Simpson

Description

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.

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