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.

Product details

• Authors: Eifenbein, Andrew Elfenbein, Andrew (University of Minnesota) Elfenbein
• Assisted by: Gillian Beer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.1995
• EAN: 9780521454520
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45452-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies