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Literary Minstrelsy, 1770–1830The Minstrel Mode

Literary Minstrelsy, 1770–1830: The Minstrel Mode [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 ever, taking center stage. After 1750, the situation changed. Some authors began to pay sustained attention to minstrels, bards, and their continental cousins (such as troubadours, improvvisatori, and improvvisatrici). At the same time, other British authors, most notably William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, largely rejected the minstrel mode and began to develop the conventions of what later came to be called Romantic authorship. One goal of this study is to introduce minstrel writing — the phrase I will use to describe representations of poetic composition through minstrels and similar figures — as a model of writing that developed in dialogic opposition to that of Romantic lyricism.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Literary Minstrelsy, 1770–1830The Minstrel Mode

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
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978-1-349-29923-2
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10.1057/9780230593985_1
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[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 ever, taking center stage. After 1750, the situation changed. Some authors began to pay sustained attention to minstrels, bards, and their continental cousins (such as troubadours, improvvisatori, and improvvisatrici). At the same time, other British authors, most notably William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, largely rejected the minstrel mode and began to develop the conventions of what later came to be called Romantic authorship. One goal of this study is to introduce minstrel writing — the phrase I will use to describe representations of poetic composition through minstrels and similar figures — as a model of writing that developed in dialogic opposition to that of Romantic lyricism.]

Published: Oct 21, 2015

Keywords: Authorial Persona; Woman Writer; Literary Convention; Modern Author; Traditional Verse

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