At Harvard, but not OF Harvard, writes abt the 18th & 19th centuries & abt books, their reading, & sometimes non-reading. At the OTHER sites w/ same handle
@AnnaElizClark Germaine de Stael’s _Corinne, or Italy -, from 1807, great for tracing the transition to the mod idea of genius from older notions of the genius loci. Explicitly about the woman of genius and what will happen to her. (Spoiler alert : nothing good !)