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The Lake poets and professional identity /
The idea that the inspired poet stands apart from the marketplace is considered central to British Romanticism. However, Romantic authors were deeply concerned with how their occupation might be considered a kind of labour comparable to that of the traditional professions. In the process of defining...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;
no. 71. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The idea that the inspired poet stands apart from the marketplace is considered central to British Romanticism. However, Romantic authors were deeply concerned with how their occupation might be considered a kind of labour comparable to that of the traditional professions. In the process of defining their work as authors, Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge - the 'Lake school' - aligned themselves with emerging constructions of the 'professional gentleman' that challenged the vocational practices of late eighteenth-century British culture. They modelled their idea of authorship on the learned professions of medicine, church, and law, which allowed them to imagine a productive relationship to the marketplace and to adopt the ways eighteenth-century poets had related their poetry to other kinds of intellectual work. In this work, Goldberg explores the ideas of professional risk, evaluation and competition that the writers developed as a response to a variety of eighteenth-century depictions of the literary career. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 297 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-288) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511342509 0511342500 0511340869 9780511340864 9780511484247 0511484240 9780521152792 0521152798 1107178932 9781107178939 1281085081 9781281085085 9786611085087 6611085084 1139132229 9781139132220 0511341970 9780511341977 |