Oracles and Hierophants: The Political Geography of Immigration Control

by David G. Riede

Shedding new light on the institutionalization of literature as a kind of secular scripture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, David G. Riede explores the ways in which major Romantic poets constructed the authority behind their own writings. He maintains that such seemingly idiosyncratic, iconoclastic writers as Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge ultimately insist upon their own authority, even to the point of imaging themselves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080142626X
• ISBN13: 9780801426261
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 283 Pages