The Domestication of Genius

The Domestication of Genius

Author: Julian North

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-11-19

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0199571988

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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'.