Thomas Coryate versus John Taylor
The emergence of the early modern celebrity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21473535 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M G Aune (California University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author), MG Aune (California University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-104 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cahiers Élisabéthains A Journal of English Renaissance Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0184-7678 • E-ISSN: 2054-4715 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0184767819897081 |
| OpenAlex | W3003596743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
By pursuing traditional and emergent forms of patronage and by establishing himself as a travel writer in Jacobean London, Thomas Coryate created a public persona that allowed him to promote himself to a broad audience but also made himself vulnerable to appropriation and parody. John Taylor, the Water Poet, took advantage of Coryate’s project and used the traveller as the subject of a series of pamphlets and poems. Plagued by Taylor’s industriousness, Coryate failed to create a reliable public persona but, at the same time, emerged as an early example of a media celebrity
Appropriation · Art · Epistemology · Humanities · Library science · Literature · Persona · Poetry · Reflexive pronoun · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |