Byron in Nineteenth-century American Culture
Author: Houghton Library
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 53
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Author: Houghton Library
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 53
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter X. Accardo
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 53
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Graham Trueblood
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1981-06-18
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1349055883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Clubbe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-28
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1351162144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the early nineteenth century, Byron, the man and his image, have captured the hearts and minds of untold legions of people of all political and social stripes in Britain, Europe, America, and around the world. This book focuses on the history and cultural significance for Federal America of the only portrait of Byron known to have been painted by a major artist. In private hands from 1826 until this day, Thomas Sully's Byron has never before been the subject of scholarly study. Beginning with his discovery of the portrait in 1999 and a 200-year narrative of the portrait's provenance and its relation to other well-known Byron portraits, the author discusses the work within the broad context of British and American portraiture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Receiving most attention are Thomas Lawrence and Sully, his American counterpart. The author gives the fullest account to date of Sully's career and his relation to English influences and to figures prominent in the early-nineteenth-century American imagination, among them, Washington, Fanny Kemble, Lafayette, Joseph Bonaparte, and Nicholas Biddle. Byron is discussed as an icon of the young American Republic whose Jubilee year coincided with Sully's initial work on the poet's portrait. Later chapters offer a close reading of the portrait, arguing that Sully has given a visual interpretation truly worthy of his celebrated, controversial, and famously handsome subject.
Author: Frank Lentricchia
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 190
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ISBN-13: 9780333293898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John W. M. Hallock
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780299168049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHailed in the mid-19th century as the most important American poet of the period, Fitz-Greene Halleck was dubbed the American Byron and had a large general readership despite his work's infusion of homosexual themes. This biography portrays him as a prophet of the literary and sexual revolution.
Author: C. Wilson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-03-03
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0230611044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis exciting collection represents a range of scholarly approaches and include close textual study, comparative readings, and broad cultural analysis. Contributors to this collection include Bernard Beatty, Peter Cochran, Marilyn Gaull, Charles E. Robinson, Andrew Stauffer, and Timothy Webb.
Author: Andrew Elfenbein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-03-30
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780521454520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is the first full-length study of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on Carlyle, Emily Bronte, Tennyson, Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, and Wilde. Rather than treating influence in terms of source study or of intersubjective struggle, it demonstrates how institutions of cultural production mediate the access that later writers have to earlier ones."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Jane Stabler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1317884515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOften seen as the exception to generalisations about Romanticism, Byron's poetry - and its intricate relationship with a brilliant, scandalous life - has remained a source of controversy throughout the twentieth century. This book brings together recent work on Byron by leading British and American scholars and critics, guiding undergraduate students and sixth-form pupils through the different ways in which new literary theory has enriched readings of Byron's work, and showing how his poetry offers a rewarding focus for questions about the relationship between historical contexts and literary form in the Romantic period. Diverse and fresh perspectives on canonical texts such as Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Manfred are included together with stimulating analyses of less well-known narrative poems, lyrics and dramas. A clearly structured introduction traces key developments in Byron criticism and locates the essays within wider debates in Romantic studies. Detailed headnotes to each essay and a guide to further reading help to orientate the reader and offer pointers for further discussion. The collection will enable students of English literature, Romantic studies and nineteenth-century cultural studies to assess the contribution that different critical methodologies have made to our understanding of individual poems by Byron, as well as concepts like the Byronic hero and evolving definitions of Romanticism.