Genius

PRIMARY SOURCES

Kant, Immanuel. The Critique of Judgment. Translated by James Creed Meredith. Oxford: Clarendon, 1952. The best translation in English.

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Foreword by Mary Gordon. San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1929.

SECONDARY SOURCES

Battersby, Christine. Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Writers often refer to this text for a discussion of gender and genius.

Bromwich, David. A Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert Frost. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. See especially "Reflections on the Word Genius," 20–42.

Elfenbein, Andrew. "Lesbianism and Romantic Genius: The Poetry of Anne Bannerman." English Literary History 63, no. 4 (1996): 929–957

Murray, Penelope, ed. Genius: The History of an Idea. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. This volume is a comprehensive study of the history of genius from antiquity to postmodernism. It also examines the role of genius across several disciplines, from literature to psychiatry.

Stadler, Gustavus. "Louisa May Alcott's Queer Geniuses." American Literature 71, no. 4 (1999): 657–677.