Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and by Sarah Wootton

By Sarah Wootton

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and reveal model charts a brand new bankruptcy within the altering fortunes of a distinct cultural phenomenon. This booklet examines the afterlives of the Byronic hero in the course of the paintings of nineteenth-century girls writers and reveal diversifications in their fiction. it's a well timed reassessment of Byron's enduring legacy in the course of the 19th century and past, concentrating on the charged and risky literary dialogues among Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and a Romantic icon whose presence takes centre level in fresh display variations in their such a lot celebrated novels. The huge interdisciplinary lens hired during this ebook concentrates at the conflicted rewritings of Byron's poetry, his 'heroic' protagonists, and the cult of Byronism in nineteenth-century novels from satisfaction and Prejudice to Middlemarch, and extends outwards to the reappearance of Byronic heroes on movie and in tv sequence over the past 20 years.

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