TY  - GEN
T1  - English literary afterlives : Greene, Sidney, Donne and the evolution of posthumous fame
T2  - Manchester Spenser.
A1  - Chaghafi, Elisabeth Leila
LA  - English
PP  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1149149710
AB  - "English literary afterlives" traces life narratives of early modern authors created for them after their deaths by readers or publishers, who retrospectively tried to make sense of the author's life and works. In a series of case-studies of the reception history of major poets - Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Herbert, as well as Robert Greene, the first 'celebrity author' - within a generation of their deaths, it shows how those authors were posthumously fashioned and refashioned. It argues that during the early modern period there is a gradual movement towards biographical readings that attempt to find the author in the works, which in turn led to the emergence of written lives that consider poets not in terms of their 'public' lives but in terms of their poetic activity, i.e. the beginnings of literary biography. Will be of interest to students and scholars of several canonical early modern authors.
AB  - "English literary afterlives" illustrates the Renaissance treatment of the posthumous literary life. It argues for the emergence of biographical reading practices during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as early readers attempted to link the literary output of dead authors to their personal lives. Early modern authors' complex attitudes to print, and their attempts to 'fashion' their own careers through their writings have been well documented. This study, by contrast, explores how authors and their literary reputations were fashioned after their deaths (and sometimes appropriated) by early modern readers, publishers and printers. It examines the use of biographical prefaces in early modern editions, the fictional presentation of historical poets, pseudo-biography, as well as more conventional modes such as elegy and the exemplary life. By analysing responses to a series of major literary figures after their deaths - Geoffrey Chaucer, Philip Sidney, Robert Greene, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, and George Herbert. "English literary afterlives" charts the pre-history of literary biography in the period and presents a counter-narrative to established ideas of authorial emergence through self-fashioning. The book will appeal to scholars and students of the individual authors covered, as well as readers interested in book history, reception history, authorship and life-writing." --
OP  - 209
NO  - Made available via: manchesterhive.
NO  - MUP 2020 titles.
CN  - PR531 .C53 2020eb
SN  - 9781526144966
SN  - 1526144964
SN  - 9781526144973
SN  - 1526144972
SN  - 9781526144959
SN  - 1526144956
KW  - Greene, Robert, : 1558-1592 : Appreciation.
KW  - Sidney, Philip, : 1554-1586 : Appreciation.
KW  - Spenser, Edmund, : 1552?-1599 : Appreciation.
KW  - Donne, John, : 1572-1631 : Appreciation.
KW  - Herbert, George, : 1593-1633 : Appreciation.
KW  - Donne, John, : 1572-1631
KW  - Greene, Robert, : 1558-1592
KW  - Herbert, George, : 1593-1633
KW  - Sidney, Philip, : 1554-1586
KW  - Spenser, Edmund, : 1552?-1599
KW  - English poetry : Early modern, 1500-1700 : Appreciation : History.
KW  - English poetry : Early modern, 1500-1700 : History and criticism.
KW  - Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
KW  - Art appreciation
KW  - English poetry : Early modern
KW  - Early Modern Literature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - 1500-1700
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -