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Literary Minstrelsy, 1770–1830

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230593985

ISBN: 978-1-349-29923-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 21, 2015

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The Minstrel Mode

Simpson, Erik

Pages: 1 –26

[This study explores a literary convention: the representation of a poet, harp, or lyre in hand, performing for an audience. Before 1750, minstrels and bards had traditionally played only a peripheral role in British literature, appearing as fleeting decorations in numerous works but rarely, if...
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The Minstrel in the World: Sydney Owenson and Irish Internationalism

Simpson, Erik

Pages: 27 –50

[The conscious, consistent foundation of minstrel writing is the deployment of personae that are crucially autobiographical, in ways that encourage fantasies of transparent identifications of author and character, and just as importantly not autobiographical, in ways that emphasize breaks between...
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‘The Minstrels of Modern Italy’: Germaine de Staël, Improvisation, and Myths of Corinne

Simpson, Erik

Pages: 51 –74

[When Germaine de Staël’s Corinne, or Italy made its sensational debut in 1807, it presented to British readers a familiar image: a poet performing verses to the accompaniment of a harp or lyre. Such images had become a commonplace of British and Irish writing in the preceding decades, in texts...
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The Minstrel and Regency Romanticism: James Beattie and the Rivalry of Byron and Wordsworth

Simpson, Erik

Pages: 75 –103

[When he first met Walter Scott in 1803, William Wordsworth saw him in the process of shaping the minstrel mode for the early nineteenth century. Scott had turned his attention from the largely editorial enterprise of Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802–3) to the original verse romance of The...
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The Minstrel Goes to Market: the Prizes and Contests of James Hogg, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Felicia Hemans

Simpson, Erik

Pages: 104 –133

[In his Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards (1786), Joseph Cooper Walker equivocates as he speculates on the existence of ancient contests of bards or minstrels: ‘We have good reason to believe, that the ancient Irish had Musical Contests; but, as we want the authority of history to support us,...
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The ‘Minstrel of the Western Continent’: The Last of the Mohicans and Transatlantic Minstrelsy before Blackface

Simpson, Erik

Pages: 134 –157

[In The Last of the Mohicans (1826), James Fenimore Cooper writes the following about David Gamut, the Connecticut Puritan who accompanies the protagonists of the Leatherstocking Tales in this novel: He was, in truth, a minstrel of the western continent — of a much later day, certainly, than...

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