Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society - Couverture rigide

Christensen, Jerome

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801843553 ISBN 13 : 9780801843556

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992

Synopsis

A study of the career and persona of Lord Byron, this book draws on contemporary literary, political and social theory not only to revise our understanding of Byron, but also to re-examine the romanticism of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Scott, Hazlitt and Shelley. The author argues that the literary system that became "Byronism" was a complicated contrivance engineered by the poet - in collaboration with his publisher, friends, reviewers and readers - for the greater glory of a United Kingdom triumphant in the war with Napoleon. Wellington may have won on the battlefield, but the real victory for Great Britain would depend on its ablility to symbolize itself in a way that would overcome foreign resistance without force of arms - that would turn enemies into consumers. She contends that Byron was the predominant vehicle for that strategy. British commercial society would benefit extravagantly from the international success of "Childe Harold" and the glamour and appeal of its author. But "Byronism" was a project that in "Don Juan" Byron would reject. This book is an account of the packaging and sale of Byron, the poet's increasing resistance to the constraints of "Byronism", and the eventual break with the commercial society that had made him a symbol.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801843553
• ISBN 13: 9780801843556
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
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• Personne responsable: non disponible