The Resource This long pursuit : reflections of a romantic biographer, Richard Holmes
This long pursuit : reflections of a romantic biographer, Richard Holmes
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The item This long pursuit : reflections of a romantic biographer, Richard Holmes represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First United States edition.
- Extent
- viii, 360 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780307742346
- Label
- This long pursuit : reflections of a romantic biographer
- Title
- This long pursuit
- Title remainder
- reflections of a romantic biographer
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard Holmes
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1945-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Holmes, Richard
- Dewey number
- 809/.93592
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Holmes, Richard
- Authors, English
- Authors
- Biographers
- Biography as a literary form
- Romanticism
- Label
- This long pursuit : reflections of a romantic biographer, Richard Holmes
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn963230667
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First United States edition.
- Extent
- viii, 360 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307742346
- Lccn
- 2016040528
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- Label
- This long pursuit : reflections of a romantic biographer, Richard Holmes
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn963230667
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First United States edition.
- Extent
- viii, 360 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307742346
- Lccn
- 2016040528
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
Library Locations
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Chevy Chase LibraryBorrow it5625 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20015, US38.9651433 -77.07510599999999
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