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Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830

Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish, and American Literature
By:E. Simpson
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781349299232
eText ISBN:9780230593985
Edition:0
Copyright:2008
Format:Page Fidelity

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This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social, responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone genius. Simpson highlights the centrality of the minstrel to many important literary developments from the Romantic era through to the 1840s.