The Domestication of Genius: Biography and the Romantic Poet

by Julian North

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199571988
• ISBN13: 9780199571987
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"