'Genius' and the household mode of intellectual production: 1795-1885.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: Koditschek, Theodore | Copyright information 
 
  In our age & country, every person with any mental power at all, who 
  both thinks for himself & has a conscience, must feel himself, to a 
  very great degree, alone.... I am in this supremely happy, that I have 
  had & even now have, that communion in the fullest degree where it is 
  most valuable of all, in my own home. But I have it nowhere else. 
  J.S. Mill (1)

On the face of it, genius seems irreducible to sociological dissection. Yet 'genius,' as a cultural p...

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