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John Clare: A Literary Life

By Roger Sales (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2002
ISBN
978-0-333-65271-8, 978-1-4039-9028-0, 978-0-333-71486-7, 978-0-333-80334-9
DOI
10.1057/9781403990280
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
941 kB (963795 bytes)
Series
Literary Lives
Edition
1
Pages
XVIII, 195\214
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Poetry and Poetics; British and Irish Literature;

Description

This book situates John Clare's long, prolific but often badly neglected literary life within the wider cultural histories of the Regency and earlier Victorian periods. The first half considers the construction of the Regency peasant-poet and how Clare performed this role on stages such as the London Magazine. It also looks at the way in which it went out of fashion as Regency mentalities were replaced by early Victorian ones. The second half recreates asylum culture and places Clare's performances as Regency boxers and Lord Byron within this bleak new world.

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