The Emergence of the English Author
Subtitle: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 6, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780521020923
Subjects: Poetry texts & anthologies; Literary Criticism; Biography & Autobiography; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Biography/Autobiography; Eastern European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; Biography & Autobiography-General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Eastern European; Poets, English--Biography--History and critic; Poets, English--Biography--History and criticism; Literary
First sentence: 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.