Walter Scott and Fame
Authors and Readers in the Romantic Age
Walter Scott and Fame is a study of correspondences between Scott and socially and culturally diverse readers of his work in the English-speaking world in the early nineteenth century. Examining authorship, reading, and fame, the book is based on extensive archival research, especially in the collection of letters to Scott in the National Library of Scotland. Robert Mayer demonstrates that in Scott's literary correspondence constructions of authorship,reading strategies, and versions of fame are posited, even theorized. Scott's reader-correspondents invest him with power but they also attempt to tap into or appropriate some of his authority.…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-251411-0
- EAN: 9780192514110
- Produktnummer: 29057648
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 82'403 KB
Über den Autor
Robert Mayer was educated at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Oklahoma State University, where he was for many years Director of the Screen Studies Program. He is the author of History of the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe and the editor of Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Modern Philology,Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, ELH, The Seventeenth Century, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He lives in New Mexico and is at work on a study of the novelist Philip Roth, the poet Philip Levine, and the filmmaker Barry Levinson.
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