Mary Tighe and Literary History
The Making of a Critical Reputation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8063707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harriet Kramer Linkin (New Mexico State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 564-576 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00717.x |
| OpenAlex | W1910204558 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
This essay offers a survey of critical (and uncritical) responses to Mary Tighe from the initial private printing of her epic poem Psyche; or, the Legend of Love in 1805 to the present. It opens with a brief discussion of the problematic status of Tighe’s literary papers, reviews the curious fame she experienced before her death in 1810, and then provides a detailed analysis of her literary reception in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty‐first century after the 1811 publication of Psyche, with Other Poems . In addition to its extensive overview of the published scholarship that has shaped Tighe’s critical reputation, the essay also attends to the less prominent readers (or fans) who played a significant role in keeping what Thomas Moore once called Tighe’s ‘quiet fame’ alive
Art · EPIC · Legend · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Reputation · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |