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The Domestication of Genius - Biography and the Romantic Poet (Hardcover, New)
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The Domestication of Genius - Biography and the Romantic Poet (Hardcover, New)
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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 1840s.
Starting with Johnson, Boswell, and female collective Lives, it
looks at how the market success of biography was built on its
representation and publication of domestic life. In the 1820s and
30s biographers 'domesticated' Byron, Shelley, and other poets by
situating them at home, opening up their (often scandalous) private
lives to view, and bringing readers into intimate contact with
greatness.
Biography was an influential transmitter of the myth of 'the
Romantic poet', as the self-creating, masculine genius, but it also
posed one of the first important challenges to that myth, by
revealing failures in domestic responsibility that were often seen
as indicative of these writers' inattention to the needs of the
reader. The Domestication of Genius is the most comprehensive
account to date of the shaping of the Romantic poets by biography
in the nineteenth-century.
Written in a lively and accessible style, it casts new light on the
literary culture of the 1830s and the transition between Romantic
and Victorian conceptions of authorship. It offers a powerful
re-evaluation of Romantic literary biography, of major biographers
of the period, and of the posthumous reputations of the Romantic
poets.
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