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- “Dust jacket, black cloth boards and book's interior in fine condition.”
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- United States
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- Book Title
- Performing Authorship in Eighteenth -Century English Periodicals
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1611484162
ISBN-13
9781611484168
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114167171
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals
Subject
Modern / 18th Century, Publishing, Europe / Great Britain / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2012
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Series
Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850 Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
18
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2012-012336
Reviews
Manushag N. Powell's elegant work pushes further. . .arguments about the complexity of authorial personae in essay periodicals. ... Anyone interested in the wide range of periodicals that claimed to 'police the audience into behaving as an ideal English society,'. . . will find important angles by which to come at these texts. Casting a wider net, Powell also enlightens her reader about lesser-known periodicals. ... Powell's excellent argument that 'the periodical represents authorship intensified' is well grounded. ... Powell draws a fascinating link between the eidolon and a paperbased economy. . . . Powell's scholarship is meticulous and robust, and her writing is engaging. She deals with such essential aspects of the genre as anonymity, public-private transgression (the periodical moves beyond the coffee house as a space for reading and discussion), and instances when eidolons grew out of well-known eighteenth-century theatre. ... Even as she explicates the mixture of energy and enervation that informed the eidolon of eighteenth-century essay periodicals, Powell revitalizes our thinking about the genre., For anyone interested in an up-to-the-moment overview of the broad range of eighteenth-century English periodical literature, written with the invigorating, almost manic energy of its subject matter, Manushag Powell's Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals is a necessary book. As implied by the title, Powell's study focuses on the eidolon as it 'performs' (as author, character, and citizen of the eidolon world) in the pages of eighteenth-century periodicals--and sometimes outside them. Powell brings to her task a battery of critical approaches, including performance theory, gender theory, feminist theory, and variations on the 'public sphere,' but what is most memorable about the book is her wide reading in the primary sources and an associational sprezzatura that generates sometimes brilliant and sometimes risky allusions and syntheses across not only decades but centuries., Manushag N. Powell's elegant work pushes further. . .arguments about the complexity of authorial personae in essay periodicals. ... Anyone interested in the wide range of periodicals that claimed to 'police the audience into behaving as an ideal English society,'. . . will find important angles by which to come at these texts. Casting a wider net, Powell also enlightens her reader about lesser-known periodicals. ... Powell's excellent argument that 'the periodical represents authorship intensified' is well grounded. ... Powell draws a fascinating link between the eidolon and a paperbased economy. . . . Powell's scholarship is meticulous and robust, and her writing is engaging. She deals with such essential aspects of the genre as anonymity, public-private transgression (the periodical moves beyond the coffee house as a space for reading and discussion), and instances when eidolons grew out of well-known eighteenth-century theatre. ... Even as she explicates the mixture of energy and enervation that informed the eidolon of eighteenth-century essay periodicals, Powell revitalizes our thinking about the genre.nergy and enervation that informed the eidolon of eighteenth-century essay periodicals, Powell revitalizes our thinking about the genre.nergy and enervation that informed the eidolon of eighteenth-century essay periodicals, Powell revitalizes our thinking about the genre.nergy and enervation that informed the eidolon of eighteenth-century essay periodicals, Powell revitalizes our thinking about the genre., "Manushag N. Powell's elegant work pushes further. . .arguments about the complexity of authorial personae in essay periodicals. ... Anyone interested in the wide range of periodicals that claimed to 'police the audience into behaving as an ideal English society,'. . . will find important angles by which to come at these texts. Casting a wider net, Powell also enlightens her reader about lesser-known periodicals. ... Powell's excellent argument that 'the periodical represents authorship intensified' is well grounded. ... Powell draws a fascinating link between the eidolon and a paperbased economy. . . . Powell's scholarship is meticulous and robust, and her writing is engaging. She deals with such essential aspects of the genre as anonymity, public-private transgression (the periodical moves beyond the coffee house as a space for reading and discussion), and instances when eidolons grew out of well-known eighteenth-century theatre. ... Even as she explicates the mixture of energy and enervation that informed the eidolon of eighteenth-century essay periodicals, Powell revitalizes our thinking about the genre." -- Eighteenth-Century Fiction "For anyone interested in an up-to-the-moment overview of the broad range of eighteenth-century English periodical literature, written with the invigorating, almost manic energy of its subject matter, Manushag Powell's Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals is a necessary book. As implied by the title, Powell's study focuses on the eidolon as it 'performs' (as author, character, and citizen of the eidolon world) in the pages of eighteenth-century periodicals--and sometimes outside them. Powell brings to her task a battery of critical approaches, including performance theory, gender theory, feminist theory, and variations on the 'public sphere,' but what is most memorable about the book is her wide reading in the primary sources and an associational sprezzatura that generates sometimes brilliant and sometimes risky allusions and syntheses across not only decades but centuries." -- Modern Philology "[T]his new monograph contributes greatly to recent scholarship on the professionalization of authorship in the eighteenth century." -- Modern Language Review "Manushag N. Powell begins with a strong case based on internet blogging for the relevance today of the personae created within eighteenth-century essay periodicals, literary periodicals made up largely by an essay and correspondence to the essayist. . . .[I]n the end I was won over by all I had learned and Powell's critical insights and sound judgments. I was won over, too, by prose style and persona--qualities of a successful periodical." -- The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, Manushag N. Powell begins with a strong case based on internet blogging for the relevance today of the personae created within eighteenth-century essay periodicals, literary periodicals made up largely by an essay and correspondence to the essayist. . . .[I]n the end I was won over by all I had learned and Powell's critical insights and sound judgments. I was won over, too, by prose style and persona--qualities of a successful periodical., [T]his new monograph contributes greatly to recent scholarship on the professionalization of authorship in the eighteenth century.
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
828/.509
Edition Description
Revised edition
Table Of Content
Preface Chapter 1: Author and Eidolon I.The periodical life cycle II.The Eidolon III.Anonymity? IV.Genre and the public sphere V.The performance of authorship; readers as spectators Chapter 2: Early Periodical Cross-Dressing I.Lucubrations and sexual identity II.Release the Crackenthorpes: The embattled Female Tatler III.War on two fronts: The Female Tatler and the British Apollo Chapter 3: Performance, Masculinity, and Paper Wars I.The Fielding-Hill Paper War II.Acting manly in the Covent-Garden Journal III.John Hill's failure to fight IV."Female" warriors enter the fray V.Eidolons on Stage Chapter 4: Femininity and the Periodical I.Confirmed bachelors and spinsters: Eidolons and the problem of marriage II."Below the Dignity of the human Species:" Establishing authority in Montagu and Haywood III.The Old Maid: Frances Brooke's "Freeborn Briton" versus the coffee-house Connoisseur
Synopsis
Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals discusses the English periodical and how it shapes and expresses early conceptions of authorship in the eighteenth century. Unique to the British eighteenth century, the periodical is of great value to scholars of English cultural studies because it offers a venue where authors hash out, often in extremely dramatic terms, what they think it should take to be a writer, what their relationship with their new mass-media audience ought to be, and what qualifications should act as gatekeepers to the profession. Exploring these questions in The Female Spectator, The Drury-Lane Journal, The Midwife, The World, The Covent-Garden Journal, and other periodicals of the early and mid-eighteenth century, Manushag Powell examines several "paper wars" waged between authors. At the height of their popularity, essay periodicals allowed professional writers to fashion and make saleable a new kind of narrative and performative literary personality, the eidolon, and arguably birthed a new cult of authorial personality. In Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals, Powell argues that the coupling of persona and genre imposes a lifespan on the periodical text; the periodicals don't only rise and fall, but are born, and in good time, they die., Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals discusses the English periodical and how it shapes and expresses early conceptions of authorship in the eighteenth century. Unique to the British eighteenth century, the periodical is of great value to scholars of English cultural studies because it offers a venue where authors hash out, often in extremely dramatic terms, what they think it should take to be a writer, what their relationship with their new mass-media audience ought to be, and what qualifications should act as gatekeepers to the profession. Exploring these questions in The Female Spectator, The Drury-Lane Journal,The Midwife, The World, The Covent-Garden Journal, and other periodicals of the early and mid-eighteenth century, Manushag Powell examines several "paper wars" waged between authors. At the height of their popularity, essay periodicals allowed professional writers to fashion and make saleable a new kind of narrative and performative literary personality, the eidolon, and arguably birthed a new cult of authorial personality. In Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals, Powell argues that the coupling of persona and genre imposes a lifespan on the periodical text; the periodicals don't only rise and fall, but are born, and in good time, they die., This book embraces periodicals across the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century to argue that this mode of writing, packed with humor and verve, originates the figure of the mass market author as a literary character. The author posits that, at the same time, periodicals harbor inescapable doubts as to whether such a character is sustainable.
LC Classification Number
PN5116.P69 2012
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