Romantic genius and the literary magazine : biography, celebrity and politics

Publication Data

• Title Romantic genius and the literary magazine : biography, celebrity and politics
• Author David Minden Higgins
• Publisher Routledge
• Publication date 2005
• Publication location London
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

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.

Topics

• 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

Romantic genius and the literary magazine : biography, celebrity and politics by David Minden Higgins. ISBN 9780415335560. Published by Routledge in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.