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Higgins David Minden <1974-> |
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Titolo |
Romantic genius and the literary magazine [[electronic resource] ] : biography, celebrity and politics / / David Higgins |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-30902-3 |
1-281-15766-X |
9786611157661 |
0-203-96385-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in romanticism ; ; 6 |
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Soggetti |
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English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Authors, English - Biography - History and criticism |
Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Celebrities - Great Britain - Biography - History and criticism |
English periodicals - History - 19th century |
Genius - History - 19th century |
Biography as a literary form |
Romanticism - Great Britain |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-188) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Literary genius, transgression and society in the early nineteenth century -- Literary biography and its discontents -- Magazine biography in the late Romantic period -- Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine and the construction of Wordsworth's genius -- William Hazlitt and the degradation of genius -- 'The quack artist': Benjamin Robert Haydon and the dangers of publicity. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In early nineteenth-century Britain, there was unprecedented interest in the subject of genius, as well as in the personalities and private lives of creative artists. This was also a period in which literary magazines were powerful arbiters of taste, helping to shape the ideological |
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