The Cambridge Introduction to Byron

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-521-11133-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Cambridge Introductions to Literature

Author of the most influential long poem of its era (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) and the funniest long poem in European literature (Don Juan), Lord Byron was also the literary superstar of Romanticism, whose effect on nineteenth-century writers, artists, musicians and politicians – but also everyday readers – was second to none. His poems seduced and scandalized readers, and his life and legend were correspondingly magnetic, given added force by his early death in the Greek War of Independence. This introduction compresses his extraordinary life to manageable proportions and gives readers a firm set of contexts in the politics, warfare, and Romantic ideology of Byron's era. It offers a guide to the main themes in his wide-ranging oeuvre, from the early poems that made him famous (and infamous) overnight, to his narrative tales, dramas and the comic epic left incomplete at his death.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lansdown, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Life; 2. Context; 3. The letters and journals; 4. The Poet as pilgrim; 5. The Orient and the outcast; 6. Four philosophical tales; 7. Histories and mysteries; 8. Don Juan; 9. Afterword; Further reading; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Lansdown, Richard
Richard Lansdown is Associate Professor of English at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.

Richard Lansdown is Associate Professor of English at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.