Byron and the Victorians
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Byron and the Victorians
（Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 4）
Cambridge University Press, 2004
- : pbk
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"First paperback edition 2004"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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This book is the first full-length study of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on Carlyle, Emily Bronte, 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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Byron and the secret self
- 2. The creation of Byronism
- 3. Carlyle, Byronism, and the professional intellectual
- 4. Byron at the margins: Emily Bronte and the fate of Milo
- 5. The flight from vulgarity: Tennyson and Byron
- 6. The shady side of the sword: Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, Wilde, and Byron's homosexuality
- Afterword.
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