Inventing Edward Lear / Sara Lodge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lodge, Sara, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.

Lear, Edward.

Authors, English--19th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Artists--Great Britain--Biography.

Artists.

Natural history illustrators--Great Britain--Biography.

Natural history illustrators.

Arts, Victorian--Great Britain.

Arts, Victorian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Edward Lear-the father of nonsense-wrote some of the best-loved poems in English. He was also admired as a naturalist, landscape painter, travel writer, and composer. Awkward but funny, absurdly sympathetic, Lear invented himself as a Victorian character. Sara Lodge offers a moving account of one of the era's most influential creative figures.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

A Note on the Music

Introduction

1. Returning to Lear: Music and Memory

2. Nonsense and Nonconformity

3. Queer Beasts

4. Dreamwork: Lear's Visual Language

5. Inventing Edward Lear

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgements

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019)

ISBN:

9780674989054

0674989058

9780674989078

0674989074

OCLC:

1088909613