{"product_id":"the-lake-poets-and-professional-identity-paperback-9780521152792","title":"The Lake Poets and Professional Identity (Paperback) 9780521152792","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Lake Poets and Professional Identity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoldberg analyses the strategies Romantic poets employed to present their work as comparable to the traditional professions.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrian Goldberg (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521152792, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 12 August 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The primary benefit of this critical approach is the argument’s seamlessness;  Goldberg weaves an intricate, substantive account of the poets’ sustained  efforts in the late 1790s to create a new professional paradigm that  should have us rereading their works for informative glimpses of that work  in progress.\"  \u003cbr\u003e  -Sarah M. Zimmerman, Fordham University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe idea that the inspired poet stands apart from the marketplace is considered central to British Romanticism. However, Romantic authors were deeply concerned with how their occupation might be considered a kind of labour comparable to that of the traditional professions. In the process of defining their work as authors, Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge - the 'Lake school' - aligned themselves with emerging constructions of the 'professional gentleman' that challenged the vocational practices of late eighteenth-century British culture. They modelled their idea of authorship on the learned professions of medicine, church, and law, which allowed them to imagine a productive relationship to the marketplace and to adopt the ways eighteenth-century poets had related their poetry to other kinds of intellectual work. In this work, Goldberg explores the ideas of professional risk, evaluation and competition that the writers developed as a response to a variety of eighteenth-century depictions of the literary career.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: professionalism and the Lake School of Poetry\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Romanticism, Risk, and Professionalism: 1. Cursing Doctor Young, and after\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Genealogies of the Romantic Wanderer: 2. Merit and reward in 1729\u003cbr\u003e 3. James Beattie and The Minstrel\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Romantic Itinerants: 4. Authority and the itinerant cleric\u003cbr\u003e 5. William Cowper and the itinerant Lake poet\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Lake School, Professionalism, and the Public: 6.  Robert Southey and the claims of literature\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'Ministry more palpable': Wordsworth's Romantic professionalism\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006713811224,"sku":"9780521152792","price":31.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521152792i_6a0b8801-6393-4727-91c0-47fa6ea1d1e1.jpg?v=1691372659","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-lake-poets-and-professional-identity-paperback-9780521152792","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}