Introduction: Between Geniuses and Brain-Suckers. Problematic Professionalism in Eighteenth-Century Authorship

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  • Sören Hammerschmidt Arizona State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21825/aj.v4i1.1112

Keywords:

Eighteenth Century, Authorship Studies, Genius, Sören Hammerschmidt, Heather Ladd, Mark Vareschi, Alise Jameson, Ingo Berensmeyer, Gero Guttzeit, Jodi Wyett, Susan Whyman, Megan Richardson, Meta Henty

Abstract

Introduction to the sixth issue of Authorship.

Author Biography

Sören Hammerschmidt, Arizona State University

Sören Hammerschmidt is an Instructor in the English Department at Arizona State University, where he primarily teaches courses in the first-year composition series, composition courses for ESL students, and developmental writing. His other hat is a powdered wig: he has published articles on the media ecologies of Alexander Pope’s published correspondence; Anna Barbauld’s posthumous shaping of Samuel Richardson’s authorial persona via his letters; the epistolary self-fashioning of Ignatius Sancho; and Scottish urban poetry from the mid-seventeenth century to the First World War.

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Published

2015-06-29

How to Cite

Hammerschmidt, S. (2015). Introduction: Between Geniuses and Brain-Suckers. Problematic Professionalism in Eighteenth-Century Authorship. uthorship, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.21825/aj.v4i1.1112

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