In early nineteenth-century Britain, there was unprecedented
interest in the subject of genius, as well as in the personalities
and private lives of creative artists. This was also a period in
which literary magazines were powerful arbiters of taste, helping
to shape the ideological consciousness of their middle-class
readers. Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine considers how
these magazines debated the nature of genius and how and why they
constructed particular creative artists as geniuses.
Romantic writers often imagined genius to be a force that
transcended the realms of politics and economics. David Higgins,
however, shows in this text that representations of genius played
an important role in ideological and commercial conflicts within
early nineteenth-century literary culture. Furthermore, Romantic
Genius and the Literary Magazine bridges the gap between Romantic
and Victorian literary history by considering the ways in which
Romanticism was understood and sometimes challenged by writers
inthe 1830s. It not only discusses a wide range of canonical and
non-canonical authors, but also examines the various structures in
which these authors had to operate, making it an interesting and
important book for anyone working on Romantic literature.
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