Romantic genius and the literary magazine biography, celebrity and politics

Title:

Author:

Higgins, David Minden, 1974-

Personal Author:

Higgins, David Minden, 1974-

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Physical Description:

viii, 192 p. : ill.

Series:

Routledge studies in romanticism ; 6

Routledge studies in romanticism ; 6.

General Note:

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.

Personal Subject:

Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846-Appreciation-Great Britain.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850-Appreciation-Great Britain.

Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830-Appreciation-Great Britain.

Subject Term:

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.