Footsteps: Adventures Of A Romantic Biographer
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, dust jacket present with minimal fading. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Tight and intact. No stickers or price tags visible.
A landmark work in the art of biography, Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer chronicles Richard Holmes's passionate quest to literally retrace the journeys of some of history's most celebrated Romantic writers, including Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Gérard de Nerval. With the energy of a literary detective and the soul of a poet, Holmes argues that true biographical understanding requires the biographer to inhabit the same landscapes, roads, and silences that shaped his subjects. The result is a richly layered narrative that blurs the boundary between biography and autobiography, between past and present, between the hunter and the hunted. Written with warmth, wit, and intellectual rigour, the book presents a deeply personal meditation on what it means to pursue another life across time — and what that pursuit ultimately reveals about one's own.
Author: Richard Holmes
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, dust jacket present with minimal fading. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Tight and intact. No stickers or price tags visible.
A landmark work in the art of biography, Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer chronicles Richard Holmes's passionate quest to literally retrace the journeys of some of history's most celebrated Romantic writers, including Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Gérard de Nerval. With the energy of a literary detective and the soul of a poet, Holmes argues that true biographical understanding requires the biographer to inhabit the same landscapes, roads, and silences that shaped his subjects. The result is a richly layered narrative that blurs the boundary between biography and autobiography, between past and present, between the hunter and the hunted. Written with warmth, wit, and intellectual rigour, the book presents a deeply personal meditation on what it means to pursue another life across time — and what that pursuit ultimately reveals about one's own.