Man of Genius, A - Softcover

Janet Todd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908524820 ISBN 13: 9781908524829

Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press, 2017

Synopsis

Set in bustling Regency England and decaying Venice, A Man of Genius portrays a psychological journey from safety into secrecy and obsession. After a troubled childhood, Ann achieves independence earning her living as an author of Gothic novels. Within a group of male writers, she meets and is enthralled by the supposed poetic genius, Robert James. Ann and Robert travel from London through a Europe exhausted by the Napoleonic Wars. They arrive in a Venice of spies and intrigue, where their relationship becomes torturous and Robert descends into near madness.

About this title

About the Author

Janet Todd was born in Wales and had a wandering childhood in England, Scotland, Bermuda and Ceylon. She worked as an academic in Ghana, Puerto Rico, the US (University of Florida and Professor at Rutgers, NJ), Scotland and England. An Emerita Professor at the University of Aberdeen, until recently she was President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. An internationally renowned scholar, she is an expert on Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft and Aphra Behn. Her passion has been for women writers, both the largely unknown and the famous.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908524820
• ISBN 13: 9781908524829
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352