TY - BOOK AU - Higgins,David Minden TI - Romantic genius and the literary magazine: biography, celebrity and politics SN - 9780415335560 U1 - 828.808809 23 PY - 2005/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain KW - Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain KW - Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain KW - English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism KW - Authors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism KW - Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century KW - Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century KW - Celebrities -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism N2 - "In early nineteenth-century Britain, there was unprecedented interest in the subject of genius, as well as in the personalities and private lives of creative artists. This was also a period in which literary magazines were powerful arbiters of taste, helping to shape the ideological consciousness of their middle-class readers. Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine considers how these magazines debated the nature of genius and how and why they constructed particular creative artists as geniuses.""Romantic writers often imagined genius to be a force that transcended the realms of politics and economics. David Higgins, however, shows in this text that representations of genius played an important role in ideological and commercial conflicts within early nineteenth-century literary culture, Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine also bridges the gap between Romantic and Victorian l ER -