Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine

Considering how literary magazines in early nineteenth-century Britain debated the nature of genius, as well as how and why they constructed particular creative artists as geniuses, this is an important work for anyone working on Romantic literature.

David Higgins is a Lecturer in English at University College Chester, and has published articles on Wordsworth, Hazlitt and nineteenth-century constructions of race.

Introduction, David Higgins; Chapter 1 Literary genius, transgression and society in the early nineteenth century, David Higgins; Chapter 2 LiteraryMagazineBlackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and the construction of Wordsworth's genius, David Higgins; Chapter 5 William Hazlitt and the degradation of genius, David Higgins; Chapter 6 'The Quack Artist', David Higgins; Chapter 102 Conclusion, David Higgins;