Authoring the self : self-representation, authorship and the print market in British poetry from Pope through Wordsworth / / Scott Hess.

• Superior document: Literary criticism and cultural theory
• Author: Hess, Scott.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (325 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain. Arguing for con...