Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Nonfiction, History
Cover of the book Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry by Michael Gamer, Cambridge University Press
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Author: Michael Gamer ISBN: 9781108132091
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: February 17, 2017
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Michael Gamer
ISBN: 9781108132091
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: February 17, 2017
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

This is the first book to examine how Romantic writers transformed poetic collections to reach new audiences. In a series of case studies, Michael Gamer shows Romantic poets to be fundamentally social authors: working closely with booksellers, intimately involved in literary production, and resolutely concerned with current readers even as they presented themselves as disinterested artists writing for posterity. Exploding the myth of Romantic poets as naive, unworldly, or unconcerned with the practical aspects of literary production, this study shows them instead to be engaged with intellectual property, profit and loss, and the power of reprinting to reshape literary reputation. Gamer offers a fresh perspective on how we think about poetic revision, placing it between aesthetic and economic registers and foregrounding the centrality of poetic collections rather than individual poems to the construction of literary careers.

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This is the first book to examine how Romantic writers transformed poetic collections to reach new audiences. In a series of case studies, Michael Gamer shows Romantic poets to be fundamentally social authors: working closely with booksellers, intimately involved in literary production, and resolutely concerned with current readers even as they presented themselves as disinterested artists writing for posterity. Exploding the myth of Romantic poets as naive, unworldly, or unconcerned with the practical aspects of literary production, this study shows them instead to be engaged with intellectual property, profit and loss, and the power of reprinting to reshape literary reputation. Gamer offers a fresh perspective on how we think about poetic revision, placing it between aesthetic and economic registers and foregrounding the centrality of poetic collections rather than individual poems to the construction of literary careers.

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