Byron : life and legend

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Byron : life and legend

Fiona MacCarthy

John Murray, c2002

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Includes bibliographical refernces (p. 575-637) and index

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内容説明

This biography of Byron (by Byron's own publisher John Murray) attempts to reinterpret Byron's life and poetry for a new generation. Fiona MacCarthy has had access to the full John Murray Byron archive, by far the largest in the world. In addition to this resource of correspondence, literary manuscripts and artefacts (many previously unseen by Byron scholars), she has drawn fully on other major collections and has travelled extensively in the Europe that Byron knew, believing strongly in the resonance of place. She aims to bring a fresh eye to Byron's childhood in Scotland, his embattled relations with his mother and the effect on him of his deformed foot. MacCarthy traces his early travels in the Mediterranean and the East, using fresh material to throw light on his series of relationships with adolescent boys - a hidden subject in earlier biographies. Perceptive on the compelling tragi-comedy of Byron's separation, his incestuous love for his half-sister Augusta and the clamorous attentions of his female fans, Fiona MacCarthy gives a new importance to his close male friendships, in particular with his publisher John Murray. For the first time she tells the story of their famous rift, as Byron's poetry became more recklessly controversial. Here Byron is viewed as a formative figure in European romanticism, the literary equivalent of Napoleon in the sweep of his ambition. He was a charasmatic influence on 19th-century music, painting, dress, manners and the art of self-preservation. Not merely a poet, Byron was a man of action, involved in the Italian "Risorgimento" and in the Greek War of Independence in which he died aged 36. Newly translated letters illuminate this tragic episode. Byron was a celebrity in his lifetime, a "superstar" after the publication of "Childe Harold" in 1812. As the Byron legend grew to unprecendented proportions after his death, the problem for the biographer has been to sift the truth from the sentimental, the self-serving and the spurious. What was Byron really like?

目次

  • Childhood and the East: Aberdeen 1789-98
  • Newstead 1798-1800
  • Nottingham 1799-1800
  • Harrow 1801-5
  • Southwell 1803-5
  • Cambridge 1806-7
  • London I 1808-9
  • Mediterranean travels 1809
  • Athens I and Constantinople 1809-10
  • Athens II 1810-11. The making of a legend: London II 1811-12
  • Melbourne House 1812
  • Cheltenham and Eywood 1812-13
  • Six Mile Bottom 1813-14
  • Seaham 1814-15
  • Piccadilly Terrace 1815-16. Celebrity in exile: Geneva 1816
  • Venice 1816-19
  • Ravenna 1819-21
  • Pisa 1821-22
  • Genoa 1822-23
  • Cephalonia 1823
  • Missolonghi 1824. The Byron cult: the return of the body
  • the battle for possessions
  • intimate reverberations
  • the European legacy
  • the Byronic Englishman. Epilogue: Hucknall Torkard, 15 June 1938.

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