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03533aam a2200493 i 4500 001 966E834E0F2511E9BB56EF4997128E48 003 SILO 005 20190103010119 008 180502t20192019mauaf b 001 0beng c 010 $a 2018015474 020 $a 0674971159 020 $a 9780674971158 035 $a (OCoLC)1023054673 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d HLS $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR4879.L2 $b Z75 2019 082 00 $a 700.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Lodge, Sara $q (Sara J.), $e author. 245 10 $a Inventing Edward Lear / $c Sara Lodge. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; $c 25 cm 520 $a An original and lively account of one of the most influential figures of the Victorian age. Edward Lear wrote some of the best-loved poems in English, including "The Owl and the Pussycat," but the father of nonsense was far more than a poet. He was a naturalist, a brilliant landscape painter, an experimental travel writer, and an accomplished composer. Sara Lodge presents the fullest account yet of Lear's passionate engagement in the intellectual, social, and cultural life of his times. Lear had a difficult start in life. He was epileptic, asthmatic, and depressive, but even as a child a consummate performer who projected himself into others' affections. He became, by John James Audubon's estimate, one of the greatest ornithological artists of the age. Queen Victoria--an admirer--chose him to be her painting teacher. He popularized the limerick, set Tennyson's verse to music, and opened fresh doors for children and adults to share fantasies of magical escape. Lodge draws on diaries, letters, and new archival sources to paint a vivid picture of Lear that explores his musical influences, his religious nonconformity, his relationship with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and the connections between his scientific and artistic work. He invented himself as a character: awkward but funny, absurdly sympathetic. In Lodge's hands, Lear emerges as a dynamic and irreverent polymath whose conversation continues to draw us in. Inventing Edward Lear is an original and moving account of one of the most intriguing and creative of all Victorians.--Provided by publsher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Returning to Lear: music and memory -- Nonsense and nonconformity -- Queer beasts -- Dreamwork: Lear's visual language -- Inventing Edward Lear. 600 10 $a Lear, Edward, $d 1812-1888. 600 17 $a Lear, Edward, $d 1812-1888. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00039994 650 0 $a Authors, English $y 19th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Artists $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Natural history illustrators $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Arts, Victorian $z Great Britain. 650 7 $a Artists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00817559 650 7 $a Arts, Victorian. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00818259 650 7 $a Authors, English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821945 650 7 $a Natural history illustrators. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034336 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718093211.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191116021044.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190202013130.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=966E834E0F2511E9BB56EF4997128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search