Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine: Biography, Celebrity, Politics Book

1	Literary genius, transgression and society in the early nineteenth century	12
	Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the reviews	13
	Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	16
	Blackwood's and Percy Bysshe Shelley	19
	Evangelicalism and the dangers of genius	23
	Fraser's Magazine	28
	Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges and Edward lytton Bulwer	31
	John Stuart Mill and the Monthly Repository	37
	Fraser's and the (in)dignity of literature	40
	Conclusion	45
2	Literary biography and its discontents	46
	Biographical debates : William Wordsworth and Thomas Carlyle	47
	Biographical debates : William Hazlitt, Thomas De Quincey, Isaac D'Israeli	51
	The problem of 'personality'	55
3	Magazine biography in the late Romantic period	60
	Literary portraits : William Hazlitt and William Maginn	61
	Literary reminiscences : Leigh Hunt and Thomas Jefferson Hogg	74
	Literary reminiscences : Richard Pearse Gillies on Scott	82
	Thomas De Quincey's 'lake reminiscences' and Tait's Edinburgh Magazine	85
4	Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and the construction of Wordsworth's genius	90
	Wordsworth's reception	91
	Blackwood's and Wordsworth	92
	The 'letters from the lakes'	95
5	William Hazlitt and the degradation of genius	102
	Genius and power	103
	Understanding apostasy	105
	'Mr. Coleridge's lay sermon'	111
	Genius, literature and liberalism	113
	The failure of the Liberal	123
6	'The quack artist' : Benjamin Robert Haydon and the dangers of publicity	127
	Haydon on genius, high art and the public	128
	Haydon in the press, 1814-20	131
	Haydon in the press, 1820-46	138
	Cruikshank on Haydon : two caricatures	141