Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity

Informationen zum Autor Clara Tuite is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (Cambridge, 2002), co-editor, with Gillian Russell, of Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770–1840 (Cambridge, 2002), and co-editor, with Claudia L. Johnson, of A Companion to Jane Austen (2009). Klappentext This book examines the relationship between Lord Byron's life and work, and the Regency culture of scandal. Zusammenfassung Clara Tuite explores Lord Byron's life and work! his public image and the reception of his writings through the idea of scandalous celebrity. Tuite analyses Byron's role in the literary! political and sexual scandals that mark the Regency as a vital period of social transition and emergent celebrity culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: proverbially notorious; Introduction: the meteor's milieu; Part I. Worldlings: 1. Caroline Lamb, more like a beast; 2. Stendhal, on his knees; 3. Napoleon, that fallen star; 4. Bloody Castlereagh; Part II. Writings: 5. Childe Harold IV and the pageant of his bleeding heart; 6. Don Juan: the life and work of infamous poems; Part III. After-Warriors: 7. Byron's Head and the pirate sphere; Epilogue: you may be devil; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Clara Tuite, Clara (University of Melbourne) Tuite, Tuite Clara
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781107442955
• ISBN: 978-1-107-44295-5
• No. of pages: 345
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romantici; Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, English, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets, C 1700 To C 1800