The ghost and the machine in the Sidney family corpus

Title: The ghost and the machine in the Sidney family corpus
Creator: Pender, Patricia
Relation: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 Vol. 51, Issue 1, p. 65-85
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sel.2011.0000
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2011
Description: While it is widely accepted that Mary Sidney played an important part in the publication of Sir Philip Sidney's works, it is less well-recognized that in doing so she made a profound impact on the construction of the English author function. Through her management of her brother's corpus, her patronage activities, and through her own literary self-fashioning, Mary Sidney helped define the terms of early modern authorship and authority. Ironically, however, in cultivating the archetype of the "Dead White Male" she promoted a poetic mythology whose enduring influence would eventually obscure her own decisive role in its development.
Subject: Sidney family; Mary Sidney; Sir Philip Sidney; authorship
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1058423
Identifier: uon:16404
Identifier: ISSN:0039-3657
Language: eng
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