The Domestication of Genius

The Domestication of Genius
Author: Julian North
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2009-11-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199571988

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'.