Constructing Coleridge : the posthumous life of the author / Alan D. Vardy.

Following Coleridge's death in 1834, his family began the complex process of constructing his reputation. Coleridge was a controversial, even polarizing, figure. Attacked in both Tory and opposition magazine reviews of Biographia Literaria for moral laxity on the one hand and political apostasy...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Vardy, Alan D., 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • 'Once a Jacobin always a Jacobin'
  • 'Ungentlemanly productions' : De Quincey and scandal
  • 'Henry's book'
  • Coleridge the plagiarist
  • Her father's 'Remains' : editing and filial love
  • Biographia literaria, Sara Coleridge, and self-creation
  • Posterity and writing 'for the day'
  • Collecting Coleridge.