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



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Autore: Higgins David Minden <1974-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Romantic genius and the literary magazine : biography, celebrity and politics / / David Higgins Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
Disciplina: 828/.80809
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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
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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
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Serie: Routledge studies in romanticism ; ; 6.