Thomas Chatterton and neglected geni...
Chatterton, Thomas, (1752-1770)

 

  • Thomas Chatterton and neglected genius, 1760-1830 /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 821/.6
    書名/作者: Thomas Chatterton and neglected genius, 1760-1830 // Daniel Cook, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University of Bristol, UK.
    作者: Cook, Daniel,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    標題: 1700 - 1799
    標題: Literary forgeries and mystifications - History - 18th century.
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.
    標題: Literary forgeries and mystifications.
    標題: POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    ISBN: 1137332492 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9781137332493 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Genius and Scholarship -- 2. Tyrwhitt's Rowley, or 'what the author wrote' -- 3. Miscellanies and the Moderns -- 4. The Rowley Controversy -- 5. 'Too proud for pity': The Sentimental Reader -- 6. 'Neglected Genius': The Romantic Canon -- Afterword -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
    摘要、提要註: "Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent literary critics, and likened to the fashionable modern prose stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett. His pseudo-medieval Rowley poems, in particular, engendered a renewed fascination with ancient English literature. With Chatterton as its case study, this book offers new insights into the formation and development of literary scholarship in the period, from the periodical press to the public lecture, from the review to the anthology, from textual to biographical criticism. Cook demonstrates that, while major scholars found Chatterton to be a pertinent subject for multiple literary debates in the eighteenth century, by the end of the Romantic period he had become, and still remains, an unsettling model of hubristic genius"--
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137332493
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