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William Hayley

A Biographer’s Influence on Life Writing and Romantic Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This volume of essays reassesses William Hayley’s contribution to the literary and artistic history of the long eighteenth century and situates his work and influence in a broader cultural and, specifically, life writing context.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-04-30
Mått148 x 210 x 27 mm
Vikt646 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Life Writing
Antal sidor391
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031683046

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Lisa Gee is Assistant Professor in Creative Writing and Digital Media and Research Fellow in Future Thinking at Birmingham University, UK, and was External Research Consultant on the Hayley Papers at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. She is the author of several books and editor of Bricks Without Mortar: The Selected Poems of Hartley Coleridge (2000).Mark Crosby FSA is Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University, USA. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters on William Hayley and William Blake, Mark co-authored, Genesis: William Blake's Last Illuminated Book (2012), and co-edited Re-envisioning Blake (2012) and William Blake's Manuscripts: Praxis, Puzzles, and Palimpsests (2024).

Chapter 1. Introduction: ‘Another honest chronicler’.- Part 1 Hayley as Life-writing Subject.- Chapter 2. "Be my Enemy for Friendships sake": Hayley and Blake's biographers.- Chapter 3. Making HayleyWorld.- Chapter 4. The Life Story of an Ambitious Opera Project.- Part 2 Hayley as Life-writer.- Chapter 5. When Hayley met Cowper: the ‘private affections’ of William the Conqueror.- Chapter 6. William Hayley and the Father’s Memoir: ‘Being temperate’.- Chapter 7. Biographical Transfers: William Hayley and the Making of Jane Austen.- Chapter 8. Hayley and Dante.- Chapter 9. Hayley’s Lacunae & Hayley as Lacuna.- Part 3 Perspectives.- Chapter 10. William Hayley the ‘violent Republican’.- Chapter 11. Romney’s Portraits of Hayley.- Chapter 12. William Hayley the ‘violent Republican’.- Chapter 13. “I was anxious to counteract the unpleasant intelligence”: Recovering Eliza Hayley.- Chapter 14. Hayley’s Friendship and Romney’s portraits of Anna Seward.- Chapter 15. Hayley and Blake Revisited.