A Man of genius de Janet Todd

Janet Todd, spécialiste de Jane Austen, de Mary Wollstonecraft, des Shelley et de la Régence, a publié en mars un roman qui a reçu un bon accueil des critiques presse. Je l'ai repéré sur Instagram et Goodreads.
Il s'agit d'un roman historique qui se passe sous la Régence en Angleterre puis à Venise, et qui se présente comme un roman féministe, dont l'héroïne est auteur de romans gothiques.

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Set in bustling Regency England and decaying Venice, A Man of Genius portrays a psychological journey from safety into secrecy and obsession. After a troubled childhood, Ann achieves independence earning her living as an author of Gothic novels. Within a group of male writers, she meets and is enthralled by the supposed poetic genius, Robert James. Ann and Robert travel from London through a Europe exhausted by the Napoleonic Wars. They arrive in a Venice of spies and intrigue, where their relationship becomes torturous and Robert descends into near madness.

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“Strange and haunting, a gothic novel with a modern consciousness.” Philippa Gregory

"A quirky, darkly mischievous novel about love, obsession and the burden of charisma, played out against the backdrop of Venice's watery, decadent glory." Sarah Dunant

‘A mesmerizing story of love and obsession in nineteenth century Venice: dark and utterly compelling."
Natasha Solomons

"Intriguing and entertaining; a clever, beguiling debut.Todd knows her Venice backwards."
Salley Vickers

“Revealing, surprising, compelling, gripping.” Miriam Margolyes, actress

A Man of Genius portrays a psychological journey from safety into obsession and secrecy. It mirrors a physical passage from flamboyant Regency England through a Europe conquered by Napoleon.

Ann, a successful writer of cheap Gothic novels, becomes obsessed with Robert James, regarded by many, including himself, as a genius, with his ideas, his talk, and his band of male followers. However, their relationship becomes tortuous, as Robert descends into violence and madness.

The pair leaves London for occupied Venice, where Ann tries to cope with the monstrous ego of her lover. Forced to flee with a stranger, she delves into her past, to be jolted by a series of revelations--about her lover, her parentage, the stranger, and herself.

Janet Todd is known for her works about Mary Wollstonecraft, Aphra Behn, the Shelley circle, and Jane Austen. Born in Wales, her wandering childhood in the United Kingdom, Bermuda, and Sri Lanka led to work as an academic in Ghana, the United States, and United Kingdom. Her passion has been for women writers, the largely unknown and the famous. A former president of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, she lives in Cambridge and Venice.

Ca à l'air vraiment sympa, je l'ai noté dans ma liste de livres à acheter.

@Emjy

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Janet Todd, spécialiste de Jane Austen, de Mary Wollstonecraft, des Shelley et de la Régence

On dirait une version romancée de la vie de Mary et Percy Shelley
Je connais peu cette période de l'Histoire anglaise, ce livre donne très envie

Shelbylee a écrit:

Ca à l'air vraiment sympa, je l'ai noté dans ma liste de livres à acheter.

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Je pense que je l'ajouterai à ma PAL avant la fin du printemps