Manushag N Powell

Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals

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Produktbeschreibung

This book embraces periodicals across the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century to argue that this mode of writing, packed with humor and verve, originates the figure of the mass market author as a literary character. The author posits that, at the same time, periodicals harbor inescapable doubts as to whether such a character is sustainable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781611484168
• ISBN-10: 1611484162
• Artikelnr.: 35357828

Autorenporträt

Manushag N. Powell is assistant professor in the English Department at Purdue University. Her research interests are centered on the cultural history of literary forms and include early types of "genre" fiction writing, the periodical essay, and authors-as-characters.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chapter 1: Author and Eidolon I.The periodical life cycle II.The
Eidolon III.Anonymity? IV.Genre and the public sphere V.The performance of
authorship; readers as spectators Chapter 2: Early Periodical
Cross-Dressing I.Lucubrations and sexual identity II.Release the
Crackenthorpes: The embattled Female Tatler III.War on two fronts: The
Female Tatler and the British Apollo Chapter 3: Performance, Masculinity,
and Paper Wars I.The Fielding-Hill Paper War II.Acting manly in the
Covent-Garden Journal III.John Hill's failure to fight IV."Female" warriors
enter the fray V.Eidolons on Stage Chapter 4: Femininity and the Periodical
I.Confirmed bachelors and spinsters: Eidolons and the problem of marriage
II."Below the Dignity of the human Species:" Establishing authority in
Montagu and Haywood III.The Old Maid: Frances Brooke's "Freeborn Briton"
versus the coffee-house Connoisseur IV.Beyond the spinster: Parrots and
other Triflers Chapter 5: No Animal in Nature so Mortal as an Author, or,
Death and the Eidolon I.The genre from Hell? Printers' Devils and News from
the Dead II.Periodicals as monuments, and the hope of resurrection
III.Corpses, plagiarizers of the dead, and other textual revenants:
Grub-Street and Defoe Bibliography