Romantic genius and the literary magazine [electronic resource] : biography, celebrity and politics / David Higgins.
Series: Routledge studies in romanticism ; 6.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: viii, 192 p. : illISBN:- 9780203963852
- Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain
- Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain
- 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
- Also available in print edition.
eBooks
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
Also available in print edition.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.