UID:
almafu_9959245779002883
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 172 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-107-22256-7
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1-139-36522-3
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1-139-01772-1
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1-280-66374-X
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1-139-37768-X
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9786613640673
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1-139-37482-6
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1-139-37625-X
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1-139-37083-9
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1-139-37911-9
Series Statement:
Cambridge introductions to literature
Content:
Author of the most influential long poem of its era (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) and the funniest long poem in European literature (Don Juan), Lord Byron was also the literary superstar of Romanticism, whose effect on nineteenth-century writers, artists, musicians and politicians - but also everyday readers - was second to none. His poems seduced and scandalized readers, and his life and legend were correspondingly magnetic, given added force by his early death in the Greek War of Independence. This introduction compresses his extraordinary life to manageable proportions and gives readers a firm set of contexts in the politics, warfare, and Romantic ideology of Byron's era. It offers a guide to the main themes in his wide-ranging oeuvre, from the early poems that made him famous (and infamous) overnight, to his narrative tales, dramas and the comic epic left incomplete at his death.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; The Cambridge Introduction to Byron; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figure and tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Map: Lord Byron's Europe; Chapter 1: Life; Childhood, boyhood, youth (1788-1809); Grand Tour and years of fame (1809-1816); Exile (1816-1823); To Missolonghi (1823-1824); Epilogue; Chapter 2: Context; Politics and aristocracy; The English aristocracy; Change (1789-1824); Protest and repression; Summary; Napoleonic Europe; Causes; Conduct; Consequences; The War in the Lords; Summary; The Romantic movement; The rejection of the Enlightenment; Britain, Germany, France
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Britain: a reactionary revolution?Summary; Chapter 3: The letters and journals; 'This other Byron'; Two principles of Byronism?; 'The absolute monarch of words'; 'One should see every thing once'; Characters; 'My own wretched identity'; Chapter 4: The poet as pilgrim; Early starts, true and false; Form and function; Prospects of Europe; Newstead to Athens; Waterloo to Geneva; Venice to Rome; Chapter 5: The orient and the outcast; The Aegean matrix; 'The Scorpion girt by fire'; The Giaour; Manfred; Chapter 6: Four philosophical tales; A cell: The Prisoner of Chillon; A society: Beppo
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A psyche: MazeppaA culture: The Island; Chapter 7: Histories and mysteries; Three neoclassical dramas; Three mysteries; The Deformed Transformed; Chapter 8: Don Juan; Style and origins; Vision and attitude; An alternative vision; Chapter 9: Afterword; Art and music; Literature; Politics and philosophy; Notes; Preface; Chapter 1 Life; Chapter 2 Context; Chapter 3 The letters and journals; Chapter 4 The poet as pilgrim; Chapter 5 The orient and the outcast; Chapter 6 Four philosophical tales; Chapter 7 Histories and mysteries; Chapter 8 Don Juan; Chapter 9 Afterword; Further reading; Life
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ContextWorks; Texts; Criticism; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-12873-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-11133-1
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139017725
