Author: Andrew Elfenbein
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Andrew Elfenbein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521454520
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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"This is the first full-length study of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on Carlyle, Emily Bronte, Tennyson, Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, and Wilde. Rather than treating influence in terms of source study or of intersubjective struggle, it demonstrates how institutions of cultural production mediate the access that later writers have to earlier ones."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Norman Owens Whitehurst Adams
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: William Ellery Leonard
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Author: D. Michael Jones
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476662282
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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From action movies to video games to sports culture, modern masculinity is intrinsically associated with violent competition. This legacy has its roots in the 19th-century Romantic figure of the Byronic hero--the ideal Victorian male: devoted husband, sexual revolutionary and weaponized servant of the state. His silhouette can be traced through the works of authors like Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde. More than a literary genealogy, this history of the Byronic hero and his heirs follows the changes that masculinity has undergone in response to industrial upheaval, the rise of the middle class and the demands of global competition, from the Victorian period through the early 20th century.

Author: Carol Anne White
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Andrew Elfenbein's Byron and the Victorians (1995) is a full-length account of Victorian response to Byron and Byronism. This thesis builds upon his work by examining how three nineteenth-century novelists, Edward Bulwer, Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte, responded to Byron in their fiction. Edward Bulwer's late Regency Bildungsroman, Pelham, The Adventures of a Gentleman (1828) is an example of Byron's pre-Victorian reception which shows how one Regency novelist inscribed Byronic figures in his fiction. Pelham also dramatizes the problematic conflict between male infatuation with Byronic figures and the Bildungsroman impulse. Charles Dickens responded to Byron and Byronism more than two decades later in his Victorian Bildungsroman, David Copperfield (1849/50). Like the later Bulwer, who was critical of Byronism in Ernest Maltravers (1837) and its sequel, Alice (1838), Dickens showed an ironic, sometimes satirical detachment from Byronism. David Copperfield, however, also reveals Dickens' sense of the disempowering paralysis caused by a lingering nostalgic attachment to Byronic figures. Charlotte Bronte responded much more directly to Byron than her male contemporaries. Writing satire, not romance, she extensively re-worked Byron's The Corsair in Shirley (1849), treating her Byronic "hero" with a cold detachment that was characteristic of other women novelists such as Mary Shelley and George Eliot. Shirley, with its Monday morning realism, is at once a Childe Harold-like lament and a Thackerayean satire on an age in which heroism seemed impossible.

Author: Paul Graham Trueblood
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349055883
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Lady Byron Vindicated" (A History of the Byron Controversy) by Harriet Beecher Stowe. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: William Ellery Leonard
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Author: Tristan Donal Burke
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000484920
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Byronism, Napoleonism and Nineteenth-Century Realism offers a fresh analysis of the nineteenth-century European novel, exploring the cultural images of Byron and Napoleon as they appear in the construction of ‘bourgeois heroism.’ Utilising a unique pan-European perspective, this volume draws together concepts of heroism with theoretically informed questions of form, particularly the role of the hero-protagonist and development of literary realism. Observing Byron and Napoleon as parallel entities, whose rise and twin fame cast long shadows in the first decades of the nineteenth century, this text exemplifies the force of personality which made them heroes. Even where they were reviled, their commitment to challenging moribund cultural and social values make them touchstones for all those who attempted to understand the nineteenth century’s modernity. Integrating the study of heroism in the nineteenth-century novel with key developments in critical theory, Byronism, Napoleonism and Nineteenth-Century Realism is essential reading for students and scholars of the bourgeois hero, as well as those with a wider interest in nineteenth-century literature.