Byron and the Victorians Paperback / softback
by Andrew (University of Minnesota) Elfenbein
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book is the first full-length study of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on Carlyle, Emily Brontë, Tennyson, Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, and Wilde.
It has two emphases, theoretical and literary-historical.
Its theoretical project is to revise earlier understanding of literary influence through a demonstration of the ways that institutions of cultural production mediate the access that later writers have to earlier ones.
Its literary-historical project is to suggest the many different responses that Victorian writers had to Byron and to his celebrity in British culture.
It argues that defining oneself against Byron became a ritual of the Victorian authorial career.
Victorian writers did not reject Byron outright: instead, they defined themselves through fictions of personal development away from values associated with Byron towards those associated with themselves as mature Victorian writers.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:300 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:29/07/2004
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- ISBN:9780521607087
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:300 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:29/07/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521607087
