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100 1 _aHiggins, David Minden
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aRomantic genius and the literary magazine :
_bbiography, celebrity and politics /
_cDavid Minden Higgins
264 1 _aLondon :
_bRoutledge,
_c2005
300 _a192 pages
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _a"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
650 0 _aHaydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.
650 0 _aWordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.
650 0 _aHazlitt, William, 1778-1830 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.
650 0 _aEnglish prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
650 0 _aAuthors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism.
650 0 _aPolitics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
650 0 _aLiterature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
650 0 _aCelebrities -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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