Manfred: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

ISBN-13: 9781554813681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 144 str.

George Gordon; Joe Black; Leonard Conolly

Opis

A quintessential depiction of the Byronic hero, Byron's poetic drama Manfred centres on the interior sufferings of its psychologically tortured title character, who is haunted by the death of his forbidden lover. This edition of Manfred is accompanied by a substantial selection of contextual materials.

Spis treści

• Introduction
• Manfred
• In Context
• Manfred’s Original Third Act
• Literary Contexts
• from John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667)
• from Anne Radcliffe, The Italian (1797)
• from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One (1808)
• from Horace Walpole, The Mysterious Mother (1768)
• from William Beckford, Vathek (1786)
• Byron’s Other Writings
• Selected Letters to Augusta Leigh
• from The Corsair: A Tale (1814)
• “Prometheus” (1816)
• from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Third (1816)
• Responses to Manfred
• Contemporary English reviews from The British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review (July 1817)
• from William Roberts, The British Review, and London Critical Journal (August 1817)
• from Francis Jeffrey, review of Manfred, The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal (August 1817)
• from anonymous review of Manfred, The Gentleman’s Magazine (July 1817)
• from anonymous review of Manfred, The Lady’s Monthly Museum (August 1817)
• from anonymous review of Manfred, The Literary Gazette (June 1817)
• from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, review of Manfred, Über Kunst und Altertum (1820, written 1817)
• from Man-Fred (1834)
• from Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody (1883–91)