Authoring the Self

Scott Hess is Assistant Professor of English at Earlham College, where he also teaches Environmental Studies courses. He has published essays on Romantic and eighteenth-century literature, print culture, authorship, and the environment in Nineteenth Century Studies, TheAge of Johnson, European Romantic Review, and International Studies in Literature and Environment.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century British Print Market, the Author, and Romantic Hermeneutics Chapter 2: Books and the Man I Sing: Alexander Pope, Print Culture, and Authorical Self-Making Chapter 3: Thomas Gray and the Elegy : Ambivalent Authorship and Uncertain Self Chapter 4: James Beattie's Minstrel and the Displace Authorial Self Chapter 5: William Cowper: The Accidental Poet and the Emerging Self Chapter 6: The Mariner as Author and the Wedding Guest as Reader: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere as a Dramatization of Print Circulation and the Construction of Authorial Identity Chapter 7: Wordsworth's Epitaphic Poetics, Authorial Self-Representation, and the Print Market Chapter 8: Wordsworth and the Authorial Self