AUTHORSHIP STUDIES AND ROMANTICISM
AUTHORSHIP STUDIES AND ROMANTICISM

Summary/Abstract: Authorship Studies and Romanticism. In recent debates about Romantic authorship, scholars seem to be dived on the question of creative subjectivity. As the death and return of the author conundrum rightfully demonstrates, theoretical discussions circle around the problem of authoriality. Indeed, literary studies are in desperate need of a new research methodology. In this paper, I will argue that, by adopting a new ecology of authorial ascension, the academic community will not only be able to decisively abandon 20th-century vocabularies (postmodern, poststructuralist, or postcolonial), but it will also gain insights into the workings of Romantic-period definitions of geniality.

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