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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Holmes, Richard, 1945-     Subjects     Holmes, Richard, 1945-     Authors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism.     Authors -- Biography -- History and criticism.     Biographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Biography as a literary form.     Romanticism -- Great Britain.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Holmes, Richard, 1945-       by title:      This long pursuit : ...       by call number:      809.93592 H752t     Search the Web     Holmes, Richard, 1945-     Holmes, Richard, 1945-     Authors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism.     Authors -- Biography -- History and criticism.     Biographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Biography as a literary form.     Romanticism -- Great Britain.       MARC Display

This long pursuit : reflections of a romantic biographer / Richard Holmes by Holmes, Richard, 1945- Pantheon Books, 2016. Call #: 809.93592 H752t Subjects Holmes, Richard, 1945-   Authors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism.   Authors -- Biography -- History and criticism.   Biographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.   Biography as a literary form.   Romanticism -- Great Britain. ISBN:  9780307379689 (hc.) Alternate title:  Reflections of a romantic biographer Description:  viii, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. Notes:  Includes index. Contents:  Part I. Confessions -- Travelling -- Experimenting -- Teaching -- Forgetting -- Ballooning -- Part II. Restorations -- Margaret Cavendish -- Zélide -- Madame de Staël -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Mary Somerville -- Part III. Afterlives -- John Keats the well-beloved -- Shelley undrowned -- Thomas Lawrence revarnished -- Coleridge misremembered -- William Blake rediscovered Summary:  From the author of The Age of Wonder and Falling Upwards. 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 Shelley's death at sea, Mary Wollstonecraft's paramours, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 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 woven together with Holmes's own experience as a biographer, giving us the rare privilege of observing a master at work. A spellbinding examination of the nature of biographical knowledge, brimming with the infectious curiosity that has characterized all of Holmes's books. Richard Holmes is an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 809.93592 H752t Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Home Delivery - HN Adult Nonfiction 809.93592 H752t Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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