Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry by Michael Gamer (Eng

Description: Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry by Michael Gamer The first book to examine how Romantic writers revised and transformed poetic collections to reach new audiences and manipulate their public presence. Far from naive or unworldly, Romantic writers were consciously concerned with the image they portrayed and with questions of authorized repackaging, intellectual property, profit, and loss. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography Michael Gamer is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation (Cambridge, 2000) and Associate Editor of the journal EIR: Essays in Romanticism. Table of Contents Introduction: re-collections intranquility; 1. Corpus, canon, and the self-collected author; 2. Subscription reprinting: the third and fifth Elegiac Sonnets; 3. Bells poetics: from The Florence Miscellany to the books of The World; 4. A local habitation and a name: remaking Lyrical Ballads; 5. Robert Southeys laureate policy; 6. Shelley incinerated: the heart of The Posthumous Poems. Review A sure sign of a good critical book is surprise that it hasnt been written before. This is so with Michael Gamers Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry … The argument is cogent, persuasive, and yet fresh. Octavia Cox, Studies in Romanticism… expertly and persuasively argued. … Gamers excellent book succeeds in getting readers thinking about the lifetimes of hustle involved in posthumous fame and Romantic poetrys bibliographic version of the greatest hits album or box set. Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry reveals that the iterative compilation is not merely derivative and that curating for a shot at immortality is literary art as much as business. Yohei Igarashi, Modern Philology JournalGamer focuses on Romantic writers employment of publishing and advertising networks, noticing how the poets cannily designed their collections of previously published work to draw in audiences and maximize profits. Talia Schaffer, Studies in English Literature… this study produces remarkable insights, such as its argument that Julian and Maddalo, the first poem in Posthumous Poems, is placed where it is to refute established stereotypes of Shelleys character. Readings of this quality occur throughout, and prove that Michael Gamers study is a rare thing: an original analysis that should influence how we teach and how we read Romantic poetry. Will Bowers, The Times Literary Supplement… quite simply one of the most insightful, lucid, and absorbing new studies of British Romanticism to appear in recent memory. Offering one groundbreaking archival discovery after another - many of which yield provocative new readings of major authors and texts … a remarkably cohesive and clear scholarly study which offers a masterclass in how to engage with previous scholarship on the topic both generously and incisively. Nicholas Mason, European Romantic Review… the ultimate quality of Gamers study resides in the acuity of its close readings, and in its attentiveness to a novel range of authors. Andrew Raven, British Society for Literature and Science Reviews (bsls.ac.uk) Promotional Michael Gamer explodes the myth of the unworldly Romantic poet, showing writers interest in public presence, and profit and loss. Review Quote A sure sign of a good critical book is surprise that it hasnt been written before. This is so with Michael Gamers Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry ... The argument is cogent, persuasive, and yet fresh. Octavia Cox, Studies in Romanticism Promotional "Headline" Michael Gamer explodes the myth of the unworldly Romantic poet, showing writers interest in public presence, and profit and loss. Description for Bookstore The first book to examine how Romantic writers revised and transformed poetic collections to reach new audiences and manipulate their public presence. Far from naive or unworldly, Romantic writers were consciously concerned with the image they portrayed and with questions of authorized repackaging, intellectual property, profit, and loss. Description for Library The first book to examine how Romantic writers revised and transformed poetic collections to reach new audiences and manipulate their public presence. Far from naive or unworldly, Romantic writers were consciously concerned with the image they portrayed and with questions of authorized repackaging, intellectual property, profit, and loss. Details ISBN1316611531 Author Michael Gamer Pages 330 Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2019 ISBN-10 1316611531 ISBN-13 9781316611531 Publication Date 2019-07-11 Format Paperback Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 821.709 Affiliation University of Pennsylvania Series Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Language English Series Number 114 UK Release Date 2019-07-11 AU Release Date 2019-07-11 NZ Release Date 2019-07-11 Alternative 9781107158856 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126819174;

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