Lord Byron's strength : romantic writing and commercial society

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Lord Byron's strength : romantic writing and commercial society

Jerome Christensen

Johns Hopkins University Press, c1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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[hbk] ISBN 9780801843556

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A study of the career and persona of Lord Byron, this book draws on contemporary literary, political and social theory not only to revise our understanding of Byron, but also to re-examine the romanticism of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Scott, Hazlitt and Shelley. The author argues that the literary system that became "Byronism" was a complicated contrivance engineered by the poet - in collaboration with his publisher, friends, reviewers and readers - for the greater glory of a United Kingdom triumphant in the war with Napoleon. Wellington may have won on the battlefield, but the real victory for Great Britain would depend on its ablility to symbolize itself in a way that would overcome foreign resistance without force of arms - that would turn enemies into consumers. She contends that Byron was the predominant vehicle for that strategy. British commercial society would benefit extravagantly from the international success of "Childe Harold" and the glamour and appeal of its author. But "Byronism" was a project that in "Don Juan" Byron would reject. This book is an account of the packaging and sale of Byron, the poet's increasing resistance to the constraints of "Byronism", and the eventual break with the commercial society that had made him a symbol.
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pbk ISBN 9780801843563

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According to Jerome Christensen, literary histories of British Romanticism have dealt inadequately with Byron's "lordship"-his singularity as a phenomenal literary success and as the last and greatest aristocratic poet in the language. At first, Byron does not want a poetic career. Then, entrapped by his extraordinary success, he gets one. And once Byron has a career, he ruins it-not by his unsavory sexual practices and political grandstanding, but by publishing his greatest poem. The first extended study of the career and persona of the most celebrated poet of the nineteenth century, Lord Byron's Strength draws on contemporary literary, political, and social theory not only to revise our understanding of Byron but also to reexamine the romanticism of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Scott, Hazlitt, and Shelley.

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