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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777466503321

Autore

Higgins David Minden <1974->

Titolo

Romantic genius and the literary magazine [[electronic resource] ] : biography, celebrity and politics / / David Higgins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-134-30902-3

1-281-15766-X

9786611157661

0-203-96385-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in romanticism ; ; 6

Disciplina

828/.80809

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Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



consciousness of their middle-class readers. Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine considers how these magazines debated the nature of genius and how and why they constructed particular creative artists as geniuses.Romantic writers often imagined genius to be a force that transcended t