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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Romanticism -- Great Britain
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Biography as a literary form.
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Biography.
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Biographies as Topic
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biographies (literary works)
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biography (general genre)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Biography as a literary form
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English prose literature
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Literature and society
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Poets, English -- Biography
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Romanticism
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780191572340 |
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0191572349 |
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9780199571987 |
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0199571988 |
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9780191722363 |
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0191722367 |
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