"This book provides multiple perspectives on a key form of public discourse, addressing the essay's postcolonial (Irish, Indian, African, American) and gendered contexts, its material manifestations in print (newspapers, essay periodicals, reviews, magazines), visual culture, and digital forms through today's blogosphere"--
The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848
John and George Keats-Man of Genius and Man of Power-embodied sibling forms of Romanticism. George's emigration to the U.S. frontier created an abysm of loneliness and alienation in John that would inspire his most plangent and sublime poetry. Gigante's account places John's life in a transatlantic context that has eluded his previous biographers.
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