Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The problem of genius in the age of slavery / Joyce E. Chaplin -- Genius versus democracy : excellence and singularity in postrevolutionary France / Nathalie Heinich -- Equality, inequality, and difference : genius as problem and possibility in American political/scientific discourse / John Carson -- Genius and obsession : do you have to be mad to be smart? / Lennard J. Davis -- Inspiration to perspiration : Francis Galton's Hereditary genius in Victorian context / Janet Browne -- "Genius must do the scullery work of the world" : new women, feminists, and genius, circa 1880-1920 / Lucy Delap -- The cult of the genius in Germany and Austria at the dawn of the twentieth century / Julia Barbara Köhne -- Cultivating genius in a Bolshevik country / Irina Sirotkina -- Insight in the age of automation / David Bates -- Genius and evil / Darrin M. McMahon