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

by E. Simpson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230200517
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/25/2008
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print Series
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	215
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

ERIK SIMPSON is an Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College. He has published articles in ELH, European Romantic Review and the Journal of the Midwest MLA.

Table of Contents

List of tables The Minstrel Mode The Minstrel in the World: International Minstrelsy and Sydney Owenson 'The Minstrels of Modern Italy': Corinne , Improvisation, and Minstrel Writing The Minstrel and Regency Romanticism: Beattie, Byron, and Wordsworth The Minstrel Goes to Market: Prize Poems and Minstrel Contests The 'Minstrel of the Western Continent': The Last of the Mohicans and Transatlantic Minstrelsy before Blackface Works Cited Index