Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830 : Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature /

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 fr...

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Main Author:	Simpson, Erik (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Series:	Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
Subjects:	Literature. British and Irish Literature. Early Modern/Renaissance Literature. Eighteenth-Century Literature. Nineteenth-Century Literature. Poetry and Poetics. British literature. Literature, Modern > 18th century. Literature, Modern > 19th century. Literature, Modern. Poetry. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book