| Description |
1 online resource (210 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Citations; Introduction: The Grammar of Glamour; 1 Trial Fantasies: Byron and Elizabeth Pigot; 2 Byron's Miniature Writ Large: Lady Caroline Lamb; 3 The Divining of Byron: Annabella Milbanke; 4 Unwriting His Body: Teresa Guiccioli's Transubstantiation of Byron; 5 The Art of Conversation: Lady Marguerite Blessington; Appendix A: Transcription of French Portions from a Seance with Byron; Appendix B: The Byron Legend in an Age of Artificial Intelligence; Notes; Selected Bibliography |
| Summary |
Byron was -- to echo Wordsworth -- half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that ""to seduce is to die to reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion."" But among the readers he seduced, in person and in poetry, were women possessed of vivid imaginations who collaborated with him in fashioning his legend. Accused of ""treating women harshly, "" Byron acknowledged: ""It may be so -- but I have been their martyr. My whole life has been sacrificed to them and by them."" Those whom he spell bound often returned the favor in their own writings tried to |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Authorship
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Relations with women
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| SUBJECT |
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 fast |
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Poets, English -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Literary forgeries and mystifications -- History -- 19th century
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Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Women and literature -- History -- 19th century
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Fame -- History -- 19th century
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Self in literature.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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POETRY -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Authors and readers
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Authorship
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Fame
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Literary forgeries and mystifications
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Poets, English -- Biography
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Relations with women
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Self in literature
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Women and literature
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813158952 |
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0813158958 |
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