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- catalog abstract """This is the fragmented tale of a single biographical quest," says Holmes, "a thirty-year journey in search of the perfect Romantic subject and the form to fit it."" "Sidetracks pursues this quest through an extraordinary and eclectic assortment of Romantic and Gothic writers and personalities - French, English, Dutch, and American, some major, some minor, but all made hypnotically alive and memorable through Holmes's transforming touch. We meet Chatterton and de Nerval, Mary Wollstonecraft and Godwin, James Boswell and Robert Louis Stevenson, Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda." "With each of these twenty pieces Holmes shows how fluid, playful, and unconstrained the many voices of biography can be. The collection is held together by a subtle autobiographical thread: "To be sidetracked is, after all, to be led astray by a path or an idea, a scent or a tune, and maybe lost forever.""--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11753429.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description """This is the fragmented tale of a single biographical quest," says Holmes, "a thirty-year journey in search of the perfect Romantic subject and the form to fit it."" "Sidetracks pursues this quest through an extraordinary and eclectic assortment of Romantic and Gothic writers and personalities - French, English, Dutch, and American, some major, some minor, but all made hypnotically alive and memorable through Holmes's transforming touch. We meet Chatterton and de Nerval, Mary Wollstonecraft and Godwin, James Boswell and Robert Louis Stevenson, Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda." "With each of these twenty pieces Holmes shows how fluid, playful, and unconstrained the many voices of biography can be. The collection is held together by a subtle autobiographical thread: "To be sidetracked is, after all, to be led astray by a path or an idea, a scent or a tune, and maybe lost forever.""--Jacket.".
- catalog description "A Romantic Premonition -- Thomas Chatterton (1970) -- Lost in France -- Monsieur Nadar (1974) -- Gautier in London (1975) -- Poor Pierrot (1976) -- Inside the Tower (1977) -- Five Gothic Shadows -- The Singular Affair of the Reverend Mr Barham (1978) -- The Reverend Maturin and Mr Melmoth (1981) -- M.R. James and Others (1974) -- John Stuart Mill (1979) -- Lord Lisle and the Tudor Nixon Tapes (1982) -- A Philosophical Love Story -- The Feminist and the Philosopher: A Love Story (1987) -- Shelley's Ghost -- Scrope's Last Throw (1977) -- To the Tempest Given (1992) -- Escapes to Paris -- Scott and Zelda: One Last Trip (1980) -- A Summer with the Novelist (1994) -- Letters from Paris (1994) -- Voltaire's Grin (1995) -- Homage to the Godfather -- Boswell's Bicentenary (1991) -- Boswell Among the Tulips (1992) -- Dr Johnson's First Cat (1999).".
- catalog extent "xi, 420 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Sidetracks.".
- catalog identifier "0679438467".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sidetracks.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books,".
- catalog relation "Sidetracks.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "820.9 21".
- catalog subject "Authors Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Authors, English Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Biographers Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Biography as a literary form.".
- catalog subject "Holmes, Richard, 1945-".
- catalog subject "PR6058.O455 Z464 2000".
- catalog subject "Romanticism Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Romanticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A Romantic Premonition -- Thomas Chatterton (1970) -- Lost in France -- Monsieur Nadar (1974) -- Gautier in London (1975) -- Poor Pierrot (1976) -- Inside the Tower (1977) -- Five Gothic Shadows -- The Singular Affair of the Reverend Mr Barham (1978) -- The Reverend Maturin and Mr Melmoth (1981) -- M.R. James and Others (1974) -- John Stuart Mill (1979) -- Lord Lisle and the Tudor Nixon Tapes (1982) -- A Philosophical Love Story -- The Feminist and the Philosopher: A Love Story (1987) -- Shelley's Ghost -- Scrope's Last Throw (1977) -- To the Tempest Given (1992) -- Escapes to Paris -- Scott and Zelda: One Last Trip (1980) -- A Summer with the Novelist (1994) -- Letters from Paris (1994) -- Voltaire's Grin (1995) -- Homage to the Godfather -- Boswell's Bicentenary (1991) -- Boswell Among the Tulips (1992) -- Dr Johnson's First Cat (1999).".
- catalog title "Sidetracks : explorations of a romantic biographer / Richard Holmes.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".