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Inventing Edward Lear
- Title
- Inventing Edward Lear / Sara Lodge.
- Author
- Lodge, Sara (Sara J.)
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- An original and lively account of one of the most influential figures of the Victorian age. Edward Lear wrote some of the best-loved poems in English, including "The Owl and the Pussycat," but the father of nonsense was far more than a poet. He was a naturalist, a brilliant landscape painter, an experimental travel writer, and an accomplished composer. Sara Lodge presents the fullest account yet of Lear's passionate engagement in the intellectual, social, and cultural life of his times. Lear had a difficult start in life. He was epileptic, asthmatic, and depressive, but even as a child a consummate performer who projected himself into others' affections. He became, by John James Audubon's estimate, one of the greatest ornithological artists of the age. Queen Victoria--an admirer--chose him to be her painting teacher. He popularized the limerick, set Tennyson's verse to music, and opened fresh doors for children and adults to share fantasies of magical escape. Lodge draws on diaries, letters, and new archival sources to paint a vivid picture of Lear that explores his musical influences, his religious nonconformity, his relationship with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and the connections between his scientific and artistic work. He invented himself as a character: awkward but funny, absurdly sympathetic. In Lodge's hands, Lear emerges as a dynamic and irreverent polymath whose conversation continues to draw us in. Inventing Edward Lear is an original and moving account of one of the most intriguing and creative of all Victorians.--Provided by publsher.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-424) and index.
- Contents
- Returning to Lear: music and memory -- Nonsense and nonconformity -- Queer beasts -- Dreamwork: Lear's visual language -- Inventing Edward Lear.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-1542
- ISBN
- 9780674971158
- 0674971159
- LCCN
- 2018015474
- 99978963055
- 40028658640
- OCLC
- 1023054673
- Author
- Lodge, Sara (Sara J.), author.
- Title
- Inventing Edward Lear / Sara Lodge.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-424) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9997896305540028658640
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-1542