Julian North

The Domestication of Genius

Biography and the Romantic Poet

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780199571987
• ISBN-10: 0199571988
• Artikelnr.: 27870674

Autorenporträt

Julian North received her BA and D. Phil. from the University of Oxford. She is a lecturer in nineteenth-century English literature at the University of Leicester, having previously been a lecturer in the English Departments of the University of Reading and De Montfort University. She is the editor of volume 11 and co-editor of volume 20 of The Works of Thomas De Quincey, 21 volumes, General Editor, Grevel Lindop (Pickering and Chatto, 2000 -2003), and the author of De Quincey Reviewed: Thomas De Quincey's Critical Reception, 1821-1994 (Camden House/ Boydell and Brewer, 1997). She has also published on Romantic auto/biography, literary tourism, screen adaptations of the novels of Jane Austen, and nineteenth-century opium literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Biography and Domestic Life
2: Biography and the Romantic Poet
3: The Lives of Byron
4: Biography and the Shelleys
5: De Quincey and the Lake Poets
6: The Female Poet. The AfterLives of Felicia Hemans and Letitia Landon