Byron and the VictoriansCambridge University Press, 30.03.1995 - 285 Seiten This book is the first full-length study of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on Carlyle, Emily Brontë, Tennyson, Bulwer-Lytton, Disraeli and Wilde. It has two emphases--to demonstrate the ways that institutions of cultural production mediate the access that later writers have to earlier ones, and to suggest the many different responses that Victorian writers had to Byron and to his celebrity in British culture. It argues that defining oneself against Byron became a ritual of the Victorian authorial career. Victorian writers did not reject Byron outright: instead, they defined themselves through fictions of personal development away from values associated with Byron toward those associated with themselves as mature Victorian writers. |
Inhalt
Byron and the secret self | 13 |
The creation of Byronism | 47 |
Carlyle Byronism and the professional intellectual | 90 |
Emily Brontë and the fate | 126 |
Tennyson and Byron | 169 |
Bulwer Lytton | 206 |
Notes | 251 |
280 | |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration appeared aristocratic Astarte audience become Bulwer Lytton Byron's career Byron's poems Byron's poetry Byron's reception Byronic hero Byronic romance Cadurcis cantos Carlyle Carlyle's Catherine century character Charlotte Charlotte Brontë Charlotte's Childe Harold Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Conrad contemporary Corsair critics culture death describes Disraeli's Don Juan elite Emily Brontë Emily's English erotic Essays fashionable female fiction Fraser's gender genius Gondal Gulnare Heathcliff hero's heroine homosexual imitating Byron influence John language Letters literary literature London Lord Byron Lytton and Disraeli male Manfred Manfred's masculine Maud Moore Moore's biography Murray naked heart narrative novel Ouida passion Pelham poem's poet poetic political popular professional intellectual quoted readers realism relation representation represented revealed reviewers role Romanticism Sartor scandal secret seemed sexual Shelley social sodomy stereotypes subjectivity suggests symbolic capital Tennyson Teufelsdröckh texts Ulysses University Press Venetia Victorian Victorian literature Wilde Wilde's women writing wrote Wuthering Heights York