03718nam 2200805 a 450 991077746650332120230617035338.01-134-30902-31-281-15766-X97866111576610-203-96385-7(CKB)1000000000415642(EBL)308781(OCoLC)476090974(SSID)ssj0000239401(PQKBManifestationID)11220796(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000239401(PQKBWorkID)10240570(PQKB)11606648(MiAaPQ)EBC308781(Au-PeEL)EBL308781(CaPaEBR)ebr10227337(CaONFJC)MIL115766(OCoLC)935263142(EXLCZ)99100000000041564220050113d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRomantic genius and the literary magazine[electronic resource] biography, celebrity and politics /David HigginsLondon ;New York Routledge20051 online resource (209 p.)Routledge studies in romanticism ;6Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.0-415-65409-2 0-415-33556-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-188) and index.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.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 tRoutledge studies in romanticism ;6.English prose literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAuthors, EnglishBiographyHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistory19th centuryCelebritiesGreat BritainBiographyHistory and criticismEnglish periodicalsHistory19th centuryGeniusHistory19th centuryBiography as a literary formRomanticismGreat BritainEnglish prose literatureHistory and criticism.Authors, EnglishBiographyHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryCelebritiesBiographyHistory and criticism.English periodicalsHistoryGeniusHistoryBiography as a literary form.Romanticism828/.80809BHiggins David Minden1974-1470385MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777466503321Romantic genius and the literary magazine3826429UNINA