Constructing Coleridge [electronic resource] : The Posthumous Life of the Author /
Vardy, A.author.
Constructing Coleridge examines Coleridge's penchant for re-invention and carefully demonstrates how the Coleridge family editors followed his lead in constructing his posthumous reputation. Following his death in 1834, the family editors faced immediate scandals and sought to construct the Coleridge they preferred in these trying circumstances.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Once a Jacobin always a Jacobin' -- 'Ungentlemanly productions' : De Quincey and scandal -- 'Henry's book' -- Coleridge the plagiarist -- Her father's 'Remains' : editing and filial love -- Biographia literaria, Sara Coleridge, and self-creation -- Posterity and writing 'for the day' -- Collecting Coleridge.
Constructing Coleridge examines Coleridge's penchant for re-invention and carefully demonstrates how the Coleridge family editors followed his lead in constructing his posthumous reputation. Following his death in 1834, the family editors faced immediate scandals and sought to construct the Coleridge they preferred in these trying circumstances.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
Poetry.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
British literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.