The domestication of genius biography and the romantic poet /

Focusing on the lives of Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, North explores how biographies by writers including Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley Thomas De Quincey, both perpetuated and, by revealing private weaknesses and domestic failures, challenged the myth of �...

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Autore principale: North, Julian
Natura: eBook
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009.
Soggetti:
English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Poets, English > 19th century > Biography > History and criticism.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Biography as a literary form.
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Riassunto:Focusing on the lives of Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, North explores how biographies by writers including Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley Thomas De Quincey, both perpetuated and, by revealing private weaknesses and domestic failures, challenged the myth of 'the Romantic poet'.
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Descrizione fisica:1 online resource (x, 253 p.) : ill.
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191722363 (ebook) :

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