Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine

Zusatztext 'David Higgins's readable and well-researched study contributes to the project of resituating key concepts of Romantic poetics within the print culture of the period.' - Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture! 1780 - 1840'...a learned and persuasive account of how the society of the 1820s and 1830s simultaneously constructed and deconstructed romantic genius! and should be must reading for both romanticists and historians of the periodical.' - David Latane! European Romantic Review Informationen zum Autor David Higgins is a Lecturer in English at University College Chester, and has published articles on Wordsworth, Hazlitt and nineteenth-century constructions of race. Klappentext Considering how literary magazines in early nineteenth-century Britain debated the nature of genius, as well as how and why they constructed particular creative artists as geniuses, this is an important work for anyone working on Romantic literature. Zusammenfassung Considering how literary magazines in early nineteenth-century Britain debated the nature of genius, as well as how and why they constructed particular creative artists as geniuses, this is an important work for anyone working on Romantic literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, David Higgins; Chapter 1 Literary genius, transgression and society in the early nineteenth century, David Higgins; Chapter 2 LiteraryMagazineBlackwood s Edinburgh Magazine and the construction of Wordsworth s genius, David Higgins; Chapter 5 William Hazlitt and the degradation of genius, David Higgins; Chapter 6 `The Quack Artist , David Higgins; Chapter 102 Conclusion, David Higgins;

Autorentext

David Higgins is a Lecturer in English at University College Chester, and has published articles on Wordsworth, Hazlitt and nineteenth-century constructions of race.

Klappentext

Considering how literary magazines in early nineteenth-century Britain debated the nature of genius, as well as how and why they constructed particular creative artists as geniuses, this is an important work for anyone working on Romantic literature.

Inhalt

Introduction, David Higgins; Chapter 1 Literary genius, transgression and society in the early nineteenth century, David Higgins; Chapter 2 LiteraryMagazineBlackwood s Edinburgh Magazine and the construction of Wordsworth s genius, David Higgins; Chapter 5 William Hazlitt and the degradation of genius, David Higgins; Chapter 6 `The Quack Artist , David Higgins; Chapter 102 Conclusion, David Higgins;