Romantic genius and the literary magazine : biography, celebrity and politics / / David Higgins

• Autore: Higgins David Minden <1974->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 828/.80809; B
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Romantic genius and the literary magazine
• ISBN: 1-134-30902-3; 1-281-15766-X; 9786611157661; 0-203-96385-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822133703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in romanticism ; ; 6.