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Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830
Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature
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Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830
Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Minstrel Mode
- 2 The Minstrel in the World: Sydney Owenson and Irish Internationalism
- 3 ‘The Minstrels of Modern Italy’: Germaine de Staël, Improvisation, and Myths of Corinne
- 4 The Minstrel and Regency Romanticism: James Beattie and the Rivalry of Byron and Wordsworth
- 5 The Minstrel Goes to Market: the Prizes and Contests of James Hogg, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Felicia Hemans
- 6 The ‘Minstrel of the Western Continent’: The Last of the Mohicans and Transatlantic Minstrelsy before Blackface
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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