Byron and the Discourses of History

ISBN-13: 9781138254626 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 202 str.

Carla Pomare

Opis

In her study of the relationship between Byron's lifelong interest in history and the development of history as a discipline, Carla Pomarè focuses on how Byron’s writings interact with a variety of historiographical texts ranging from monographs to dictionaries. Calling attention to Byron’s massive use of paratexts, she discusses how historical discourses supplied epistemological models that shaped his preoccupation with the transmission of historical knowledge and its ideological uses.

Recenzje

’A clearly envisioned and cogently articulated study that will have strong appeal for audiences interested in Byron, in the relationship of the English Romantics to Italian literature, politics, and culture, or in historiography.’ Peter Graham, Virginia Tech University, USA 'Byron and the Discourses of History is a truly valuable addition to the trend in Byron studies... it is full of sophisticated, thorough, and thoughtful discussion. Byron might have scratched his head had he foreseen this kind of interest taken in his work; but I think he would have been profoundly gratified too.' The Wordsworth Circle ’...a conscientious study that should prove of considerable interest to students and readers interested in Byron, Italian Romanticism, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century historiography.’ BARS Bulletin ’Pomare`’s wonderful book has many virtues and deserves to be read by anyone with a serious interest in Byron...’ Review of English Studies '... Pomarè presents a refreshingly lively theoretical analysis of Byron's historical reading, showing how deeply and cleverly the poet not only read his sources, but how he was also continually alive to the unstable presence of the past.' Keats-Shelley Journal

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Byron in the ’historical department’; Byron’s paratexts and the legacy of Pierre Bayle’s Dictionnaire; Marino Faliero and The Two Foscari: rewriting the myth of Venice; History as auto/biography: The Deformed Transformed and Benvenuto Cellini’s Vita; The Prophecy of Dante and Byron’s ’telescoping’ of history; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Carla Pomarè is Associate Professor of English Literature at Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy.