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Revision and Romantic Authorship
The Romantic author is often portrayed as spontaneous, extemporizing, otherworldly, and alone. Zachary Leader argues that this influential fiction is much in need of revision. Romantic attitudes to authorship profess a preference for what comes naturally, with a concomitant devaluing of secondary processes, including second thoughts, yet many Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Coleridge, Clare, and Mary Shelley revised their works. Revision and Romantic Authorship looks at the revisionary practices of these writers, showing that second thoughts (including those of collaborators) in fact play a crucial role in "Romantic" composition.
Book Details
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Publish Date: Jul 29th, 1999
- Pages: 366
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.82in - 1.03lb
- EAN: 9780198186342
- Categories: • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Praise for this book
"Revision and Romantic Authorship is an intelligent, articulate, and well-documented analysis of recent textual scholarship and current theories of editing as these fields impinge upon critical understanding of the English Romantics."--The Wordsworth Circle"Valuable as a corrective to Romanticism's many mystifications of the creative process and provides a rich, informative account of how some famous works assumed their present canonical forms....Highly recommended."--Choice