Byron and the Victorians

Klappentext Literary-historical account of Byron's influence on Victorian writers! concentrating on class and sexuality. Zusammenfassung This book is about the influence of Byron on later nineteenth-century writers. Using literary-historical methods, the author discusses Byron's influence on six Victorian authors, Carlyle, Emily Brontë, Tennyson, Bulwer-Lytton, Disraeli, and Wilde, and concentrates on issues of class, gender, and sexuality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Byron and the secret self; 2. The creation of Byronism; 3. Carlyle, Byronism, and the professional intellectual; 4. Byron at the margins: Emily Brontë and the fate of Milo; 5. The flight from vulgarity: Tennyson and Byron; 6. The shady side of the sword: Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, Wilde, and Byron's homosexuality; Afterword.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Elfenbein Andrew, Andrew Elfenbein, Andrew (University of Minnesota) Elfenbein
• Mitarbeit: Gillian Beer (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 29.07.2004
• EAN: 9780521607087
• ISBN: 978-0-521-60708-7
• Seiten: 300
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft