Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print: Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature

Simpson, E.

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 from the Romantic era through to the 1840s.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-11-20

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230200517

DOI: 10.1057/9780230593985

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 215