Julian North received her BA and D. Phil. from the University of Oxford. She is a lecturer in nineteenth-century English literature at the University of Leicester, having previously been a lecturer in the English Departments of the University of Reading and De Montfort University. She is the editor of volume 11 and co-editor of volume 20 of The Works of Thomas De Quincey, 21 volumes, General Editor, Grevel Lindop (Pickering and Chatto, 2000 -2003), and the author of De Quincey Reviewed: Thomas De Quincey's Critical Reception, 1821-1994 (Camden House/ Boydell and Brewer, 1997). She has also published on Romantic auto/biography, literary tourism, screen adaptations of the novels of Jane Austen, and nineteenth-century opium literature.

The Domestication of Genius is a knowledgeable, poised study that combines range and depth very successfully, There is a real fluency and coherence to North's analysis. Importantly, she treats Romantic literary biography as a significant genre in its own right and by doing so contributes significantly to our understanding of constructions of creativity and domesticity in the period

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. Biography and Domestic Life ; 2. Biography and the Romantic Poet ; 3. The Lives of Byron ; 4. Biography and the Shelleys ; 5. De Quincey and the Lake Poets ; 6. The Female Poet. The AfterLives of Felicia Hemans and Letitia Landon

Julian North received her BA and D. Phil. from the University of Oxford. She is a lecturer in nineteenth-century English literature at the University of Leicester, having previously been a lecturer in the English Departments of the University of Reading and De Montfort University. She is the editor of volume 11 and co-editor of volume 20 of The Works of Thomas De Quincey, 21 volumes, General Editor, Grevel Lindop (Pickering and Chatto, 2000 -2003), and the author of De Quincey Reviewed: Thomas De Quincey's Critical Reception, 1821-1994 (Camden House/ Boydell and Brewer, 1997). She has also published on Romantic auto/biography, literary tourism, screen adaptations of the novels of Jane Austen, and nineteenth-century opium literature.

The Domestication of Genius is a knowledgeable, poised study that combines range and depth very successfully, There is a real fluency and coherence to North's analysis. Importantly, she treats Romantic literary biography as a significant genre in its own right and by doing so contributes significantly to our understanding of constructions of creativity and domesticity in the period

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. Biography and Domestic Life ; 2. Biography and the Romantic Poet ; 3. The Lives of Byron ; 4. Biography and the Shelleys ; 5. De Quincey and the Lake Poets ; 6. The Female Poet. The AfterLives of Felicia Hemans and Letitia Landon

Julian North received her BA and D. Phil. from the University of Oxford. She is a lecturer in nineteenth-century English literature at the University of Leicester, having previously been a lecturer in the English Departments of the University of Reading and De Montfort University. She is the editor of volume 11 and co-editor of volume 20 of The Works of Thomas De Quincey, 21 volumes, General Editor, Grevel Lindop (Pickering and Chatto, 2000 -2003), and the author of De Quincey Reviewed: Thomas De Quincey's Critical Reception, 1821-1994 (Camden House/ Boydell and Brewer, 1997). She has also published on Romantic auto/biography, literary tourism, screen adaptations of the novels of Jane Austen, and nineteenth-century opium literature.

The Domestication of Genius is a knowledgeable, poised study that combines range and depth very successfully, There is a real fluency and coherence to North's analysis. Importantly, she treats Romantic literary biography as a significant genre in its own right and by doing so contributes significantly to our understanding of constructions of creativity and domesticity in the period

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. Biography and Domestic Life ; 2. Biography and the Romantic Poet ; 3. The Lives of Byron ; 4. Biography and the Shelleys ; 5. De Quincey and the Lake Poets ; 6. The Female Poet. The AfterLives of Felicia Hemans and Letitia Landon