The domestication of genius
North, Julian.
The domestication of genius biography and the romantic poet / [electronic resource] : Julian North. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009. - 1 online resource (x, 253 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Focusing on the lives of Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, North explores how biographies by writers including Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley Thomas De Quincey, both perpetuated and, by revealing private weaknesses and domestic failures, challenged the myth of 'the Romantic poet'.
9780191722363 (ebook) : No price
English prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Poets, English--Biography--History and criticism.--19th century
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Biography as a literary form.
PR756.B56
828.80809
The domestication of genius biography and the romantic poet / [electronic resource] : Julian North. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009. - 1 online resource (x, 253 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Focusing on the lives of Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, North explores how biographies by writers including Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley Thomas De Quincey, both perpetuated and, by revealing private weaknesses and domestic failures, challenged the myth of 'the Romantic poet'.
9780191722363 (ebook) : No price
English prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Poets, English--Biography--History and criticism.--19th century
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Biography as a literary form.
PR756.B56
828.80809