Lord Byron's Scandals and Contemporary Cancel Culture

The following is a case study in contemporary cancel culture through three cases of it in the nineteenth century. Lord Byron, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Harriet Beecher Stowe serve as three prominent cases of cancel culture in their time period that are all closely linked to one another. Cancel culture changes the way that we study these figures and their writing in the modern day. This shows that although we believe that cancel culture is a new phenomenon with the rise of social media that is not the case. Cancel culture has been happening through time as a way for the public to enact social justice without getting the court involved. Cancel culture is a lesson in the public court of opinion.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Department dc:contributor.department

English

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Jorge, Kathleen Anne

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Cleland, Katharine

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Radcliffe, David H.
• Graham, Peter W.

• Lord Byron
• British Romanticism
• Nineteenth Century
• Lady Caroline Lamb
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Cancel Culture

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:38442

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/116369