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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in romanticism ; 6.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203963852
  • 0203963857
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Romantic genius and the literary magazine.DDC classification:
  • 828/.80809 B 22
LOC classification:
  • PR756.B56 H54 2005eb
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Contents:
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.
Summary: Considering how literary magazines in early nineteenth-century Britain debated the nature of genius, as well as how and why they constructed particular creative artists as geniuses, this is an important work for anyone working on Romantic literature.
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

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Considering how literary magazines in early nineteenth-century Britain debated the nature of genius, as well as how and why they constructed particular creative artists as geniuses, this is an important work for anyone working on Romantic literature.

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