The Vanity and Insanity of Genius
Author : Kate Sanborn
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Genius
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Author : Kate Sanborn
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Genius
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Author : Kate Sanborn
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic book
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"Vanity, like space, is illimitable and all surrounding. I have noted one of its phases, not in an irreverent or sneering spirit, but as a study of human nature. Just as much vanity exists in commonplace men and women; but that would make too big a book and lack the charm which Genius throws around its accompanying foibles"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).
Author : Katherine Abbott Sanborn
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
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ISBN : 9781018306346
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Kate Sanborn
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780483132566
Excerpt from The Vanity and Insanity of Genius Stands as the sun, And all that rolls around him Drinks light and life and glory from his aspect.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Page : pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 1885
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 1887-03
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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
Author : John Ferguson Nisbet
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Page : 382 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Genius
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Author : James Whitehead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191081892
Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The book offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states or disorder - ideas that have been pervasive in modern popular culture. More specifically, the book tells the story of the initial growth and wider dissemination of the idea of the 'Romantic mad poet' in the nineteenth century, how (and why) this idea became so popular, and how it interacted with the very different fortunes in reception and reputation of Romantic poets, their poetry, and attacks on or defences of Romanticism as a cultural trend generally - again leaving a popular legacy that endured into the twentieth century. Material covered includes nineteenth-century journalism, early literary criticism, biography, medical and psychiatric literature, and poetry. A wide range of scientific (and pseudoscientific) thinkers are discussed alongside major Romantic authors, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Hazlitt, Lamb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats, Byron, and John Clare. Using this array of sources and figures, the book asks: was the Romantic mad genius just a sentimental stereotype or a romantic myth? Or does its long popularity tell us something serious about Romanticism and the role it has played, or has been given, in modern culture?
Author : Robert Ellis Thompson
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Page : 842 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Political science
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Page : 828 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Chautauquas
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