Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity

ISBN-13: 9781107442955 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 345 str.

Clara Tuite

Opis

This book examines the relationship between Lord Byron's life and work, and the Regency culture of scandal.

Recenzje

'Tuite traces the human relationships involved in the manufacture of a popular (or unpopular) idol […] bringing her expertise as a Jane Austen scholar into sophisticated decodings of social space.' Jane Stabler, Times Higher Education Supplement

Spis treści

Prologue: proverbially notorious; Introduction: the meteor's milieu; Part I. Worldlings: 1. Caroline Lamb, more like a beast; 2. Stendhal, on his knees; 3. Napoleon, that fallen star; 4. Bloody Castlereagh; Part II. Writings: 5. Childe Harold IV and the pageant of his bleeding heart; 6. Don Juan: the life and work of infamous poems; Part III. After-Warriors: 7. Byron's Head and the pirate sphere; Epilogue: you may be devil; Bibliography.