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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Holmes, Richard, 1945- author.     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- author.       by title:      This long pursuit : ...         MARC Display

This long pursuit : reflections of a romantic biographer / Richard Holmes. by Holmes, Richard, 1945- author. New York : Pantheon Books, c2016. 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 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 030737968X (hardcover : alkaline paper) Description:  viii, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm Edition:  First United States edition. 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. Requests:  0 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 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 deftly woven together with Holmes's 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 Holmes's acclaimed books.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 809.93592 Ho Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Biography B Holmes, Richard Ho Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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