The domestication of genius
Subtitle: biography and the romantic poet
By: Julian North
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780199571987
Subjects: English prose literature; Literature and society; History and criticism; Romanticism; Biography as a literary form; English Poets; Biography; History
Other titles: Biography and the romantic poet
Description: 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'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: Biography and domestic life; title: Biography and the romantic poet; title: The lives of Byron; title: Biography and the Shelleys; title: De Quincey and the Lake Poets; title: The female poet : the afterlives of Felicia Hemans and Letitia Landon.