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Ph.D., Princeton University, 2000. Denise Gigante teaches British Romantic literature, and poetry over a longer tradition. Her interests include poetic form and aesthetics, bibliomania and literary antiquarianism, gastronomy, the history and form of the essay, material print culture, and the mixed-media work of William Blake. She is currently ...
Mar 20, 2024 · Interviews February 10, 2023. Book Madness author Denise Gigante on the obsessive 19th-century bibliomaniacs who “lived in and through books” Long before there was BookTok, there was bibliomania, a consuming hunger among nineteenth-century American readers to amass, pore over, and cherish textual objects and commune with beloved writers via their published work.
Nov 8, 2011 · John Keats (1795-1821) is celebrated as one of the greatest poets of the English language, succumbing to tuberculosis at age 25. His brother? A ne’er-do-well who scarpered off to America, leaving both his brothers to die young of “the family disease.” That is, until Denise Gigante’s The Keats Brothers, published by Harvard University Press […]
Denise Gigante teaches eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature, with a focus on Romanticism. Her interests include the longer historical tradition of poetry and poetics, the English periodical essay, the Romantic novel, taste, gastronomy, aesthetic theory, antiquarianism, the history of the book, and critical tradition in relation to belles lettres. She is currently working on The ...
BY DENISE GIGANTE He approached; his countenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes.1-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein I. THE VIA NEGATIVA OF UGLINESS Whatever else can-and has-been said about Victor Frankenstein's
Nov 1, 2022 · Denise Gigante, a professor at Stanford University has written in Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America a story about America's early obsession with with books, and many of the early collectors of yesterday who changed the face of American letters and libraries for us to enjoy today. The book starts with a brief introduction the ...
Denise Gigante teaches British Romantic literature, and poetry over a longer tradition. Her interests include poetic form and aesthetics, bibliomania and literary antiquarianism, gastronomy, the history and form of the essay, material print culture, and the mixed-media work of William Blake. She is currently completing work on The Cambridge ...
