Editors:
- Includes some of the leading intellectual and cultural historians internationally, including Janet Browne, Lennard Davis, and David Bates
- Lays out a template for studying genius, an enormously influential idea that has somehow eluded much historical study
- Examines genius in a marvelous array of historical contexts, from Bolshevik Russia to Victorian England to the transatlantic slave trade
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History (CIH)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
About the authors
Darrin M. McMahon is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College, USA. He is the author of Divine Fury: A History of Genius; Happiness: A History, and the co-editor of Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Genealogies of Genius
Editors: Joyce E. Chaplin, Darrin M. McMahon
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137497673
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49765-9Published: 07 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49764-2Published: 07 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49767-3Published: 08 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2945-6630
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 191
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History, Modern History, Social History, Intellectual Studies