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The Catherine Byron Letters
The Catherine Byron Letters is an edited and annotated collection of letters mostly exchanged between Catherine Byron, the mother of the poet, and her solicitor John Hanson. The importance of this correspondence was first established by Doris Langley-Moore in Lord Byron: Accounts Rendered (1974), …
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Lord Byron and women's writing
Lord Byron’s criticisms of women writers and intellectuals are well known; his chauvinism and scorn for literary rivals have long dominated perceptions of his character and works. However, insufficient critical attention has been given to his connections with influential female authors whom he held …
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Textuality and Travel from Gray to Byron.
… on exile and poetic composition in Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I-III(1816); while the final chapter examines shared writing and travel in Percy and Mary Shelley's History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817). These particular case studies have been selected because they reveal how the …
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Social Anarchy in the Works of Byron
It is one of the greatest paradoxes in the history of English literature that a country most conservative should have had a poet of the revolution. And it is even more paradoxical to think that England, so thoroughly established in the conservatism of her nobility, should have had one of her …
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Rhetorical Byron: An interpretation of his historical tragedies
This thesis shows that Lord Byron's history plays in particular may be works of fiction, but they may also be viewed as rhetorical discourses because they can be seen as direct responses to the complex social and political issues emerging from both the Industrial and French Revolutions. This claim …
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Kierkegaard And Byron: Disability, Irony, And The Undead
… the implicit and explicit references to Lord Byron in the corpus of Søren Kierkegaard, chapter 1, "Kierkegaard and Byron," provides a historical backdrop by surveying the influence of Byron and Byronism on the literary circles of Golden Age Copenhagen. Chapter 2, "Disability," theorizes that …
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A TEI Transcription of Conversations with Lord Byron
… of Lady Blessington's Conversations with Lord Byron, currently available on the Life and Times of Lord Byron online archive. Although often cited in biographies of Lord Byron, Lady Blessington's Conversations of Lord Byron has received little critical attention. Further, the genre of …
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The Death of Women in Wordsworth, Byron, and Poe
… of male speakers in William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Edgar Allan Poe's poetry. These poets create bereaved male speakers who mourn the loss of a dead woman in order to present themselves as male poets who are capable of showing intense emotions. While all three poets construct speakers who …
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Enemy life: theorizing exile through Milton, Shelley and Byron
… exile as it is presented by Milton, Shelley and Byron. Utilizing biopolitical theory as a lens, it posits that the Satanic iteration or narrative of exile embodies the reality of worldly exile. As such the dissertation explores the complex framing and subsequent deconstruction of Satanic and …
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Albie the mad Albanian: The cross-cultural influence between Byron and Albania
<p>The subject of Byron and Albania has been historically neglected but merits study for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the importance Byron himself gave to Albania. While Western Byron scholars have tended either to omit discussion of Albania or to conflate Albania with Greece in …
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Images of hope : the pursuit of wholeness in Byron's Corsair.
Critics often describe Byron's Corsair as a hastily written, tragic tale of an outlaw who eventually drowns himself. Yet in spite of its rapid creation over a ten day period, The Corsair is a coherent work of literature in which all of the poem's compositional elements reflect the common Romantic …
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An Evaluation of Byron's Criticism in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
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King, father, or husband? : the dilemma of justice in Byron's Parisina.
Byron's last romance during the years of fame, Parisina, was written during the four-year period dating from his return to England in 1812 until his final departure from that country in the spring of 1816. Parisina was the product of the forces at work on Byron's mind during this period: the deaths …
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On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde
… of queer/irony in the writings of Lord Byron, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Fontane, and Oscar Wilde. Key to the understanding of irony is Friedrich Schlegel's re-evaluation of the concept. The thesis establishes an approach to the multifaceted concept of irony and identify key concepts of …
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Intertextual abolitionists: Frederick Douglass, Lord Byron, and the print, politics, and language of slavery
… notably through the links between Douglass' and Byron's work found in the epigraphs to the novella. These links offered Douglass a means of harnessing past conversations on slavery. Douglass' ability to access these communicative environments is made possible due to the intertextual nature of …
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"'The Life We Image': Chaos and Control in the Poetry of Byron, Shelley, and Yeats"
… ultimately enriching principle, in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, and Yeats. Each poet is highly self-conscious about this tension, a self-consciousness traceable to their Romantic and post-Romantic understanding of the nature of poetry. Situating itself in the present post-McGannian critical …
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