The gulf between the medieval Latin auctor and the modern English author is one which the history of Geoffrey Chaucer's posthumous "authorization," perhaps uniquely in English literature, negotiates.
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The emergence of the English author
scripting the life of the poet in early modern England
by Kevin Pask
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The historical construction of literary authorship has long been of particular interest to literary scholars. Yet an important aspect of the historical emergence of the author, the literary biography or "life of the poet" has received scant attention. In The emergence of the English author, Kevin Pask studies the early life-narratives of five now-canonical English poets: Geoffrey Chaucer, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Donne and John Milton.
By attending to the changing shape of the lives of these poets, Pask produces a history of the developing conception of literary authorship in England from the late medieval period to the end of the eighteenth century, and offers a long-term sociohistorical account of literary production. His book is the first full-scale history of the cultural construction of literary authority in early modern England.
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Authorship, Biography, Biography as a literary form, Canon (Literature), English Poets, English poetry, English prose literature, History, History and criticism, Literary form, Poetry, Poets, English, Social aspects, Social aspects of Authorship, Theory, Poets, biography, Poetry, authorship, English prose literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, English poetry, history and criticismPlaces
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The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
October 6, 2005, Cambridge University Press
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The emergence of the English author: scripting the life of the poet in early modern England
1996, Cambridge University Press
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