The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the

The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 12)

The historical construction of authorship is of enormous interest to scholars and critics. Yet an important aspect of the historical emergence of the author--the literary biography or "life of the poet"--has received scant attention. In The Emergence of the English Author, Kevin Pask offers the first full-scale history of the cultural construction of literary authority in early modern England, and studies the early life-narratives of major English poets Chaucer, Sidney, Spenser, Donne and Milton.

The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 12)