Byron S Politics

Author : Roderick Beaton,Christine Kenyon Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317170297

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Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry by Roderick Beaton,Christine Kenyon Jones Pdf

'It is no great matter, supposing that Italy could be liberated, who or what is sacrificed. It is a grand object - the very poetry of politics. Only think - a free Italy!!! Why, there has been nothing like it since the days of Augustus.' So wrote Lord Byron in his journal, in February 1821, only days before the outbreak of revolution in Greece, where three years later he would die in the service of the revolutionary cause. For a poet whose life and work are interlaced with action of multiple sorts, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to Byron's engagement with issues of politics. This volume brings together the work of eminent Byronists from seven European countries and the USA to re-assess the evidence. What did Byron mean by the 'poetry of politics'? Was he, in any sense, a 'political animal'? Can his final, fateful involvement in Greece be understood as the culmination of earlier, more deeply rooted quests? The first part of the book examines the implications of reading and writing as themselves political acts; the second interrogates the politics inherent or implied in Byron's poems and plays; the third follows the trajectory of his political engagement (or non-engagement), from his abortive early career in the British House of Lords, via the Peninsular War in Spain to his involvement in revolutionary politics abroad.

Author : Malcolm Miles Kelsall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0710806922

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Byron's Politics by Malcolm Miles Kelsall Pdf

Author : Peter Cochran
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443833325

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Byron’s Romantic Politics by Peter Cochran Pdf

Byron exists in two incompatible dimensions: as fully-documented history, and as romantic myth. Often the myth predominates, describing him as a passionate lover, a staunch friend, a great romantic poet, a champion of the working man, a loyal author to his publisher, and a fighter for democracy who sacrificed his life for the Freedom of Greece. This book attempts to prove that the verifiable truth often proves him to be the opposite. Using letters from Byron’s family, friends, and associates which have never been transcribed, collected and sequenced before, Peter Cochran argues that the poet was an unscrupulous sponger on his relatives and friends, that he harboured a horror at the idea of empowering the working man, had no time for democracy, and despised his publisher. His contempt for the Greeks is clear from everything he writes about them, and his motives for going to Greece at the end of his life (which Cochran analyses in more depth than they have ever been analysed before), were a disturbing mixture of self-indulgent fantasy and death-wish. Using large amounts of manuscript evidence, Cochran further argues that almost all editions of Byron’s writing do his style very poor service, constituting not contributions to knowledge of him, but additions to the obfuscating myth.

Author : Piya Pal-Lapinski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230306608

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Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror by Piya Pal-Lapinski Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection explores the divergence or convergence of freedom and terror in a range of Byron's works. Challenging the binary opposition of historicism and critical theory, it combines topical debates in a manner that is sensitive both to the circumstances of their emergence and to their relevance for the twenty-first century.

Author : Michael Steier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000084795

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Byron, Hunt, and the Politics of Literary Engagement by Michael Steier Pdf

In the second decade of the nineteenth century, the British press began a campaign of critical abuse against Leigh Hunt, caricaturing the radical journalist as an upstart "Cockney" author whose literary talents were as disreputable as his politics. Lord Byron, on the other hand, was revered as a peer and a poetical genius who, the conservative press argued, would never befriend and collaborate with a writer like Hunt. Yet Byron did just that. Byron, Hunt, and the Politics of Literary Engagement is the first full-length study of the friendship and literary relationship of two of the most important second-generation Romantic authors. Challenging long-held critical attitudes, this study shows that Byron and Hunt engaged in a creative and meaningful dialogue at each major stage in their careers, from their earliest published volumes of juvenile poetry and verse satire to their most celebrated contributions to Romantic literature: The Story of Rimini and Don Juan. Drawing upon newly recovered letters and unpublished manuscript material, this book illuminates the surprisingly durable and artistically significant friendship of Lord Byron and Leigh Hunt.

Author : Jonathan David Gross
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0742511626

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Byron by Jonathan David Gross Pdf

Byron: The Erotic Liberal explores the relationship between Byron's erotic life and his political commitments, placing his poetry in the context of the work of other aristocratic liberals such as Madame de Stael.

Author : John Havard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009289177

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Late Romanticism and the End of Politics by John Havard Pdf

In the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen empires, sinking islands, and dying stars to the making and unmaking of populations in Frankenstein and The Last Man. These works intersected with and enclosed reflections upon brewing political changes. By imagining political dynasties, slavery, parliament, and English law reaching an end, writers challenged liberal visions of the political future that viewed the basis of governance as permanently settled. The prospect of volcanic eruptions and biblical deluges, meanwhile, pointed towards new political worlds, forged in the ruins of this one. These visions of coming to an end acquire added resonance in our own time, as political and planetary end-times converge once again.

Author : Dora Neill Raymond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015030735883

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The Political Career of Lord Byron by Dora Neill Raymond Pdf

Author : Paul Graham Trueblood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1981-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349055883

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Byron’s Political and Cultural Influence in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Paul Graham Trueblood Pdf

Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674089480

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Born for Opposition by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Pdf

Volume VIII opens with Byron in Ravenna, in 1821. His passion for the Countess Guiccioli is subsiding into playful fondness, and he confesses to his sister Augusta that he is not "so furiously in love as at first." Italy, meanwhile, is afire with the revolutionary activities of the Carbornari, which Byron sees as "the very poetry of politics."

Author : Bernard Beatty
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800855298

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Reading Byron by Bernard Beatty Pdf

Perhaps no great poet, in any language, has suffered more than Byron from being merely read about rather than actually read. As Bernard Beatty remarks in his introduction to this important collection of essays, the popular conception of ‘Byron’ still often approximates to ‘Rupert Everett with a limp’. Reading Byron is the product and summation of nearly sixty years devoted to studying and teaching his poetry. It argues that, far from being ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’, Byron is serious, ethically orientated and rewarding to read. The book is in three parts: Poems – Life – Politics. Five new essays have been written especially for the first and largest section, which provides fresh perspectives on Byron’s major works. The volume continues with three of Beatty's lively lectures on unappreciated aspects of Byron the man, and three pithy essays on Byron as a complex, if not systematic, political thinker. While Beatty does not question the pre-eminent status of the ‘bright’ Don Juan, devoting a chapter to an unconventional reading of its final cantos, he argues powerfully that nineteenth-century readers, who responded on an unprecedented scale to the forceful poetic structures of the ‘dark’ Byron in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, The Tales, Manfred, and Cain, were right to do so. Introduced by Jerome McGann (editor of the great Clarendon edition of the poet's works) and concluded in dialogue with Gavin Hopps (co-editor of the forthcoming Longman edition), Reading Byron is itself essential reading for any student or lover of Romantic poetry.

Author : Michael Foot
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0060390913

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The Politics of Paradise by Michael Foot Pdf

Author : F. Rosen
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015025286306

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Bentham, Byron, and Greece by F. Rosen Pdf

Exploring the connection between Bentham and Byron forged by the Greek struggle for independence, this book focuses on the activities of the London Greek Committee, supposedly founded by disciples of Jeremy Bentham, which mounted the expedition on which Lord Byron ultimately met his death in Greece. Rosen's penetrating study provides a new assessment of British philhellenism and examines for the first time the relationship between Bentham's theory of constitutional government and the emerging liberalism of the 1820s. Breaking new ground in the history of political ideas and culture in the early nineteenth century, Rosen advances striking new interpretations based on recently published texts and manuscript sources of the development of constitutional theory from Locke and Montesquieu, the conflicting strands of liberalism in the 1820s, and the response in Britain to strong claims for national self-determination in the Mediterranean basin. He sets out to distinguish between Bentham's theory and the ideological context against which it is usually interpreted.

Author : Daniel P. Watkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015012103373

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Social Relations in Byron's Eastern Tales by Daniel P. Watkins Pdf

Author : Erwin Anton Stürzl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:89323702

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Byron: Poetry and Politics by Erwin Anton Stürzl Pdf