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Subject(s)

• English literature—18th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Popular culture and literature—Great Britain—History—18th century [Browse]
• Book design—Great Britain—History—18th century [Browse]
• Enlightenment—Great Britain [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Essays [Browse]

Series

• Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print [More in this series]
• Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the cultures of print

Summary note

"This book examines a singular cultural formation of the long eighteenth century, the poetic genius who was also a lady or gentleman of fashion. It applies an innovative mix of approaches - book history, Enlightenment and twentieth-century philosophy, visual studies, and material analyses of fashions in books and in dress - to specific editions of Alexander Pope, Mary Robinson and Lord Byron. In its material analyses of these books, this study looks closely at bindings, letterforms, engravings, newspaper advertisements, correspondence, and other ephemera. In its theoretical approaches, it takes up the interventions of Locke and Kant in connection with the visual theories of Richardson, Hogarth, and Reynolds. These investigations point ultimately to a profound connection between Enlightenment formulations of subjectivity, genius, and fashion, a link that is relevant to the construction of celebrity in our own cultural moment."-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.

Other title(s)

Fashioning authorship in the long 18th century

ISBN

• 9781137518255 ((hbk. ; : acid-free paper))
• 1137518251 ((hbk. ; : acid-free paper))

LCCN

2016951937

OCLC

950953183

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