This is a book about the biographical afterlives of the Romantic poets and the creation of literary biography as a popular form. It focuses on the Lives of six major poets of the period: Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Landon, published from the 1820s, by Thomas Moore, Mary Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, and others. It situates these within the context of the development of biography as a genre from the 1780s to the 1840s. Starting with Johnson, Boswell, and female collective Lives, it looks at how the market success of biography was built on its representation and publication of domestic life. In the 1820s and 30s biographers 'domesticated' Byron, Shelley, and other poets by situating them at home, opening up their (often scandalous) private lives to view, and bringing readers into intimate contact with greatness.Biography was an influential transmitter of the myth of 'the Romantic poet', as the self-creating, masculine genius, but it also posed one of the first important challenges to that myth, by revealing failures in domestic responsibility that were often seen as indicative of these writers' inattention to the needs of the reader. The Domestication of Genius  is the most comprehensive account to date of the shaping of the Romantic poets by biography in the nineteenth-century. Written in a lively and accessible style, it casts new light on the literary culture of the 1830s and the transition between Romantic and Victorian conceptions of authorship. It offers a powerful re-evaluation of Romantic literary biography, of major biographers of the period, and of the posthumous reputations of the Romantic poets.

The Domestication of Genius: Biography and the Romantic Poet

Literature & Fiction

North, Julian

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

Sport Coaching Research and Practice: Ontology, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Realism (Routledge Research in Sports Coaching)

Research shapes our understanding of practice in powerful and important ways, in sports coaching as in any other discipline. This innovative study explores the philosophical foundations of sport coaching research, examining the often implicit links between research process and practice, descriptions and prescriptions. Arguing that the assumptions of traditional single-disciplinary accounts, such as those based in psychology or sociology, risk over-simplifying our understanding of coaching, this book presents an alternative framework for sports coaching research based on critical realism. The result is an embedded, relational and emergent conception of coaching practice that opens new ways of thinking about coaching knowledge. Drawing on new empirical case study research, it demonstrates vividly how a critical realist-informed approach can provide a more realistic and accountable knowledge to coaching stakeholders. This knowledge promises to have important implications for coaching, and coach education and development practices.  Sport Coaching Research and Practice: Ontology, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Realism is fascinating reading for any student or researcher working in sports coaching, sport pedagogy, physical education, the philosophy or sociology of sport, or research methodology in sport and exercise.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Routledge

This book is the first to seriously consider quality issues in smaller firms, based upon well-conducted research and careful theorizing. Subjects covered include:* the relevance of formal quality standards such as BS 5750 to small firms* definitions and implementations of 'quality' in a business context, from formal standards to Total Quality Management* interviews with a selected sample of over 150 owner-managers* detailed case studies of small firms* analysis of self-generated quality strategies* the variety of formal methods of quality control.

The Quality Business: Quality Issues in the Smaller Firm (Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business)

Business & Money

Curran, James

Blackburn, Robert

Economics

“Readers will be transfixed by this novel” — Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) Daniela Machados can run. She’s the track star of Bronx City and an ace student, but that isn’t enough for a nope like her to get out of the barrio. The Orderist movement has spawned a society that rewards those who supposedly possess “merit,” which includes America’s wealthiest. Manhattan has become the capital of the forty-nine Orderist-led states, while California suffers under an economic embargo. Cities such as Manhattan have become cocoons where the so called “highborn” enjoy the pleasures of farm-grown food and private parks, while their outwardly perfect children are protected by floating nanny-like drones that follow them everywhere. Daniela has grown up fighting for the chance to attend college beyond the desperation of Bronx City. The chance to attend the elite Tuck School—a place where even the highborn struggle to obtain a spot—is too great an opportunity to ignore. But what do the richies really want from her? Daniela is thrust into a world very different than the one she expected, a place where both treachery and honor are camouflaged behind beautiful faces. Intrigue and peril soon engulf her, and Daniela learns those at society’s apex will stop at nothing to preserve their so-called order, but their enemies are no less ruthless. Betrayal is everywhere, but it is a girl from Bronx City who holds the future in her hands. Daniela may have a chance to change the world, if it does not change her first. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as the novel to revitalize the dystopian genre, Age of Order has the atmosphere of Blade Runner, the intrigue of Orphan Black and the emotional struggle of Slum Dog Millionaire. Grab it. "[T]he engaging characters, suspenseful storyline and expert world building will keep readers entertained and spellbound." --RT Book Reviews 2016 Lyra Award Winner - Best Young Adult Novel 2017 Los Angeles Book Festival - Best Science Fiction Novel

Age of Order (Age of Order Saga)

Teen & Young Adult

Plebeian Media

If you are not at the top, you are at the bottom. In the heart of Orderist Manhattan darkness strikes. In a single night, the president and many of his supporters are killed. Order must be restored. The innocent will pay the price. For some among the elite, order through punishment is no longer enough. They seek to follow the example of the slave countries and bring human chipping to America. As the highborn factions battle for power in Manhattan, Daniela seeks to save her brother and her people from both sides. But she is not prepared for the nightmares that mankind is willing to inflict upon itself, all in the name of Order. State of Order continues the story of a dark, divided America, where merit camouflages oppression, and evil masquerades as order. Get book two of the Age of Order Saga now!

State of Order: Book 2 of the Age of Order Saga

Children's Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Blood soaks the soil of America as the new civil war rages. A seemingly unstoppable wave of darkness is sweeping down from Manhattan to consume the nation. The last vestiges of genuine freedom are dimming as the South’s rag tag army is decimated by defection and defeat, and no place is safe, not even in the Republic of California. A last, desperate mission is Daniela's only to chance to survive. Fate of Order is the story of a light in the darkness, the chance for people to change, and for a nation to be reborn. The girl who was raised to take care only for her own must decide if she is willing to sacrifice those she holds most dear for ideals in which she never truly believed. Daniela will decide the Fate of Order. Get Book 3 of the Age of Order Saga now!

Fate of Order (Age of Order Saga)

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The Domestication of Genius: Biography and the Romantic Poet

Sport Coaching Research and Practice: Ontology, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Realism (Routledge Research in Sports Coaching)

The Quality Business: Quality Issues in the Smaller Firm (Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business)

Age of Order (Age of Order Saga)

State of Order: Book 2 of the Age of Order Saga

Fate of Order (Age of Order Saga)

Sport Coaching Research and Practice: Ontology, Interdisciplinarity and Critical Realism (Routledge Research in Sports Coaching)