This long pursuit : reflections of a romantic biographer
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction | 809.93592 H7528L | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, 2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
viii, 360 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Notes
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Includes index.
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In this chronicle of his lifelong obsession with discovering, assembling, and re-creating the lives of writers and scientists, Richard Holmes here casts a new eye not only on the Romantic poets and lost women of Romantic science he has long studied, including Margaret Cavendish and Mary Somerville, but on their biographers, as well. He examines the evolution of the myths that have overshadowed certain lives (Percy Shelleys death at sea, Mary Wollstonecrafts paramours, Samuel Taylor Coleridges opium-fueled lectures), and reveals how the manner in which each generation tells the stories of the lives that came before it shapes and is shaped by a contemporary understanding of human nature. These colorful portraits are deftly woven together with Holmess own experience as a biographer, giving us the rare privilege of observing a master at work. An altogether spellbinding examination of the nature of biographical knowledge, brimming with the infectious curiosity that has characterized all of Holmess acclaimed books.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Holmes, R. (2016). This long pursuit: reflections of a romantic biographer (First United States edition.). Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Holmes, Richard, 1945-. 2016. This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Holmes, Richard, 1945-. This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer Pantheon Books, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Holmes, Richard. This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer First United States edition., Pantheon Books, 2016.
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