Genealogies of Genius (eBook)

Joyce E. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University, USA. She is the author of The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius and co-author of The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus.Darrin M. McMahon is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College, USA. He is the author of Divine Fury: A History of Genius; Happiness: A History, and the co-editor of Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History.

1. Introduction; Joyce E. Chaplin and Darrin M. McMahon2. The Problem of Genius in the Age of Slavery; Joyce E. Chaplin3. Genius vs Democracy: Excellence and Singularity in Post-Revolution France; Nathalie Heinich4. Equality, Inequality, and Difference: Genius as Problem and Possibility in American Political/Scientific Discourse; John S. Carson 5. Genius and Obsession: Do You Have to Be Mad to Be Smart?; Lennard Davis6. Inspiration to Perspiration: Francis Galton's Hereditary Genius in Victorian Context; Janet Browne7. 'Genius must do the scullery work of the world': New Women, Feminists and Genius, circa 1880-1920; Lucy Delap8. The Cult of the Genius in Germany and Austria at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century; Julia Barbara Köhne9. Cultivating Genius in a Bolshevik Country; Irina Sirotkina10. Insight in the Age of Automation; David Bates11. Genius and Evil; Darrin M. McMahon