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Author North, Julian.

Title The domestication of genius : biography and the romantic poet / Julian North
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 253 pages) : illustrations
Contents Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; 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; Bibliography; Index
Summary This is a book about the biographical afterlives of the Romantic poets and the creation of literary biography as a popular form. It focuses on the Lives of six major poets of the period: Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, published from the 1820s, by Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, and others. It situates these within the context of the development of biography as a genre from the 1780s to the 1840s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-243) and index
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Subject 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.
Biography.
Biographies as Topic
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Biography as a literary form
English prose literature
Literature and society
Poets, English -- Biography
Romanticism
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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