Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend - Couverture rigide

Soderholm, James

 
9780813119397: Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend

Synopsis

" Byron was-to echo Wordsworth-half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that "to seduce is to die to reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion." But among the readers he seduced, in person and in poetry, were women possessed of vivid imaginations who collaborated with him in fashioning his legend. Accused of "treating women harshly," Byron acknowledged: "It may be so-but I have been their martyr. My whole life has been sacrificed to them and by th

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À propos de l?auteur

James Soderholm is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

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