Fashioning authorship in the long eighteenth century: stylish books of poetic genius / Gerald Egan.
This book examines a singular cultural formation of the long eighteenth century, the poetic genius who was also a lady or gentleman of fashion. It applies an innovative mix of approaches - book history, Enlightenment and twentieth-century philosophy, visual studies, and material analyses of fashions...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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| Summary: | This book examines a singular cultural formation of the long eighteenth century, the poetic genius who was also a lady or gentleman of fashion. It applies an innovative mix of approaches - book history, Enlightenment and twentieth-century philosophy, visual studies, and material analyses of fashions in books and in dress - to specific editions of Alexander Pope, Mary Robinson and Lord Byron. In its material analyses of these books, this study looks closely at bindings, letterforms, engravings, newspaper advertisements, correspondence, and other ephemera. In its theoretical approaches, it takes up the interventions of Locke and Kant in connection with the visual theories of Richardson, Hogarth, and Reynolds. These investigations point ultimately to a profound connection between Enlightenment formulations of subjectivity, genius, and fashion, a link that is relevant to the construction of celebrity in our own cultural moment. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 229 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137518262 113751826X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |