David Higgins is a Lecturer in English at University College Chester, and has published articles on Wordsworth, Hazlitt and nineteenth-century constructions of race.

'David Higgins's readable and well-researched study contributes to the project of resituating key concepts of Romantic poetics within the print culture of the period.' - Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780 - 1840'...a learned and persuasive account of how the society of the 1820s and 1830s simultaneously constructed and deconstructed romantic genius, and should be must reading for both romanticists and historians of the periodical.' - David Latane, European Romantic Review

• Introduction, David Higgins; Chapter 1 Literary genius, transgression and society in the early nineteenth century, David Higgins; Chapter 2 LiteraryMagazineBlackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and the construction of Wordsworth’s genius, David Higgins; Chapter 5 William Hazlitt and the degradation of genius, David Higgins; Chapter 6 ‘The Quack Artist’, David Higgins; Chapter 102 Conclusion, David Higgins;

David Higgins is a Lecturer in English at University College Chester, and has published articles on Wordsworth, Hazlitt and nineteenth-century constructions of race.

'David Higgins's readable and well-researched study contributes to the project of resituating key concepts of Romantic poetics within the print culture of the period.' - Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780 - 1840'...a learned and persuasive account of how the society of the 1820s and 1830s simultaneously constructed and deconstructed romantic genius, and should be must reading for both romanticists and historians of the periodical.' - David Latane, European Romantic Review

• Introduction, David Higgins; Chapter 1 Literary genius, transgression and society in the early nineteenth century, David Higgins; Chapter 2 LiteraryMagazineBlackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and the construction of Wordsworth’s genius, David Higgins; Chapter 5 William Hazlitt and the degradation of genius, David Higgins; Chapter 6 ‘The Quack Artist’, David Higgins; Chapter 102 Conclusion, David Higgins;

David Higgins is a Lecturer in English at University College Chester, and has published articles on Wordsworth, Hazlitt and nineteenth-century constructions of race.

'David Higgins's readable and well-researched study contributes to the project of resituating key concepts of Romantic poetics within the print culture of the period.' - Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780 - 1840'...a learned and persuasive account of how the society of the 1820s and 1830s simultaneously constructed and deconstructed romantic genius, and should be must reading for both romanticists and historians of the periodical.' - David Latane, European Romantic Review

• Introduction, David Higgins; Chapter 1 Literary genius, transgression and society in the early nineteenth century, David Higgins; Chapter 2 LiteraryMagazineBlackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and the construction of Wordsworth’s genius, David Higgins; Chapter 5 William Hazlitt and the degradation of genius, David Higgins; Chapter 6 ‘The Quack Artist’, David Higgins; Chapter 102 Conclusion, David Higgins;