Revision and Romantic Authorship

by Zachary Leader

The Romantic author is often portrayed as spontaneous, extemporizing, otherworldly, and alone. Zachary Leader argues that this influential fiction is much in need of revision. Romantic attitudes to authorship profess a preference for what comes naturally, with a concomitant devaluing of secondary processes, including second thoughts, yet many Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Coleridge, Clare, and Mary Shelley revised their works...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198186347
• ISBN13: 9780198186342
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"