Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine : Biography, Celebrity, Politics.

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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Main Author: Higgins, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2005
Series:Routledge studies in romanticism.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Half Title: Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Plates; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Literary genius, transgression and society in the early nineteenth century; 2 Literary biography and its discontents; 3 Magazine biography in the late Romantic period; 4 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and the construction of Wordsworth's genius; 5 William Hazlitt and the degradation of genius; 6 'The Quack Artist'; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.