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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Lord Byron"”.
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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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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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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 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 …
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Lord Byron's Scandals and Contemporary Cancel Culture
… 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 …
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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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From Skeletons to Orchards
… in which I tried to develop a more dense form. Lord Byron and Pablo Neruda were the two main influences on my work at this time, largely in terms of imaginative exoticism and figurative energy. The third section of this thesis, titled "Graffiti in the Orchard," is an exploration of my current …
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Natural history and British women writers, 1730-1830
… Pope, Oliver Goldsmith, William Wordsworth, and Lord Byron.
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Immortal Melancholia: A Psychoanalytical Study of Byronic Heroes
<p>This culminating project examines Byronic heroes using psychoanalytic theory across four case studies in media, including classic literature, theater, film, and television. The Byronic hero is a literary archetype inspired by the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824). Typical …
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Italian Unity as Leitmotiv in British Literature, 1820-1865
… is followed through the published works of Lord Byron (1788-1824), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), W.E. Gladstone (1809-1898), and George Elliot (born Mary Ann Evans 1819-1889).</p>
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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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“Paper Bullets of the Brain”: Satire, Dueling and the Rise of the Gentleman Author
… Johnson, William Gifford, Thomas Moore, and Lord Byron were involved in literary disputes featuring duels or the threat of physical violence, a pattern indicating a connection between authorship and dueling. This study explicitly examines this connection, particularly as it relates to social …
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: vengeance as a vehicle for presenting his moral principles
… Romantic poet, with the possible exception of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley has been attacked by critics who argue that in both his personal life and in his poetry and prose writings, he was immoral. Regardless of what may be said against Shelley's personal life, as a writer he is profoundly …
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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 …
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Tourists' voices : a sociological analysis of tourists' experiences in Chalkidiki, Northern Greece
… the Shirley Valentine, the Heliolatrous and the Lord Byron. Each of these clusters are characterised by the dominant themes identified by participants for their choice of holiday, the types of holiday activities they indulged in., and the views they expressed about the host community. This study …
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Journeys in the Palimpsest: British women's travel to Greece,1840-1914
… century have been dominated by the work of Lord Byron. Byron’s contemporary Greeks were Orientalised, while antique Greece was personified as a captive Greek woman on the brink of compromise by the Ottomans, or a cadaver. Throughout the nineteenth century this antique vista was employed by …
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The Byronic Myth in Brazil: Cultural Perspectives on Lord Byron's Image in Brazilian Romanticism
<p>Byron's reception in one of the nineteenth century's largest and most culturally significant post-colonial outposts, Brazil, has been virtually ignored in English studies. The implications of Lord Byron's influence in Brazil are extensive since he was overwhelmingly popular among poets but also …
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On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde
… strategies 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 …
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Writing Home: Depictions of Forced Displacement in Romantic Era and Contemporary Poetry
… in the wake of environmental change, and how Lord Byron represented the collective experience of upheaval in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan. The second half of the dissertation moves to the contemporary period to consider how poets responded to the Mediterranean Sea’s contemporary …
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