Lord Byron and Madame de Staël: Born for Opposition

ISBN-13: 9781138322158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 210 str.

Joanne Wilkes

Opis

Published in 1999, this pioneering study looks at the personal relations of Lord Byron and Madame de Stael, from their verbal sparring in Regency society, through the friendship which developed in Switzerland after Byron left England in 1816, to Byron’s tributes to Mme de Stael after her death.

Spis treści

1. ‘Their She Condition’  2. Heroines and Heroes  3. Citizens of the World  4. ‘Born for Opposition’.

O autorze

Joanne Wilkes is Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Auckland, New Zealand.