Byron S Romantic Politics

Author : Roderick Beaton,Christine Kenyon Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Peter Cochran
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : John Havard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Jerome Christensen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801843561

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Lord Byron's Strength by Jerome Christensen Pdf

This text examines Byron's "lordship" - his singularity as a literary success and as one of the great British aristocratic poets. Drawing on contemporary literary, political and social theory, this study of Byron also re-examines the romanticism of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Scott, Hazlitt and Shelley.

Author : Michael Steier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : John Owen Havard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 1009289195

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Late Romanticism and the End of Politics by John Owen 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 : Francis Henry Gribble
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547011521

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The Love Affairs of Lord Byron by Francis Henry Gribble Pdf

Lord Byron's affairs started in his college times. The book begins with the earliest love stories between the future world-known poet and his girlfriends and follows through all the meaningful relationships of his life. Lord Byron traveled a lot, and almost each of his trips was marked by a new romance. His beloved women came from Cambridge, Southwell, Spain, France, Geneva, Venice, Pisa, and Greece. A fascinating account of the incredible love life of an extraordinary personality.

Author : Piya Pal-Lapinski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : 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 : T. Mole
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230288386

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Byron's Romantic Celebrity by T. Mole Pdf

This book offers a new history and theory of modern celebrity. It argues that celebrity is a cultural apparatus that emerged in response to the Romantic industrialization of print and culture. It investigates the often strained interactions of artistic endeavour and commercial enterprise, and the place of celebrity culture in history of the self.

Author : Jane Stabler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139434355

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Byron, Poetics and History by Jane Stabler Pdf

Jane Stabler offers the first full-scale examination of Byron's poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time. Responding to recent studies of publishing and audiences in the Romantic period, Stabler argues that Byron's poetics developed in response to contemporary cultural history and his reception by the English reading public. Drawing on extensive new archive research into Byron's correspondence and reading, Stabler traces the complexity of the intertextual dialogues that run through his work. For example, Stabler analyses Don Juan alongside Galignani's Messenger - Byron's principal source of news about British politics while in Italy - and refers to hitherto unpublished letters between Byron's publishers and his friends to reveal a powerful impulse among his contemporaries to direct his controversial poetic style to their own conflicting political ends. This fascinating study will be of interest to Byronists and, more broadly, to scholars of Romanticism in general.

Author : Malcolm Miles Kelsall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0710806922

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Byron's Politics by Malcolm Miles Kelsall Pdf

Author : Norbert Lennartz
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 147443942X

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Byron and Marginality by Norbert Lennartz Pdf

This book approaches Byron from a completely new angle: no longer seen in terms of his status as a celebrity and a star on the book-selling market, Byron is instead seen as an outsider both in Regency society and, even more so, for his iconoclastic views of life and literature.

Author : J. Andrew Hubbell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319542386

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Byron's Nature by J. Andrew Hubbell Pdf

This book is a thorough, eco-critical re-evaluation of Lord Byron (1789-1824), claiming him as one of the most important ecological poets in the British Romantic tradition. Using political ecology, post-humanist theory, new materialism, and ecological science, the book shows that Byron’s major poems—Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the metaphysical dramas, and Don Juan—are deeply engaged with developing a cultural ecology that could account for the co-creative synergies in human and natural systems, and ground an emancipatory ecopolitics and ecopoetics scaled to address globalized human threats to socio-environmental thriving in the post-Waterloo era. In counterpointing Byron’s eco-cosmopolitanism to the localist dwelling praxis advocated by Romantic Lake poets, Byron’s Nature seeks to enlarge our understanding of the extraordinary range, depth, and importance of Romanticism’s inquiry into the meaning of nature and our ethical relation to it.

Author : Peter Cochran
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443808125

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“Romanticism” – and Byron by Peter Cochran Pdf

"Romanticism - and Byron" is a book in two parts. In the first part, Dr Cochran examines "Romanticism" and shows that it is a word meaning anything, and therefore nothing. It is an academic construct created by academics, and has no basis in the writings of the early nineteenth century. Its continued use, argues Dr Cochran, is a modern marketing phenomenon solely. In the second part, Dr Cochran examines the life and work of Byron in the non-"romantic" context of his contemporaries. He shows how Byron's antithetical nature created problems when he was forced into compromising situations with friends who were close to parts of his mind, yet irreconcilable with one another. This "mobility", argues Cochran, was often an embarrassment for Byron's social life, but of great benefit to his creativity. This part of the book features chapters on Shelley, Scott, Blake, Keats, Coleridge and Wordsworth, and is notable for the amount of original archive documentation with which Cochran illustrates his theme.