Author: Marguerite Gardiner (Countess of Blessington, pseud.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Languages : en
Pages : 954

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 876

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1128

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Languages : en
Pages : 790

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Author: James Soderholm
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081318519X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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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 remake his public image to reflect their own. Through writings both well known and generally unknown, James Soderholm examines the poet's relationship with five women: Elizabeth Pigot, Caroline Lamb, Annabella Milbanke, Teresa Guiccioli, and Marguerite Blessington. These women participated in Byron's life and literary career and the manipulation of images that is the Byron legend. Soderholm argues against the sentimental depictions of biographers who would preserve Byron's romantic aura by diminishing the contributions of these women to his social, sexual, and literary identity. By restoring the contexts in which literary works charm or bedevil particular readers, the author shows the consequences of Byron's poetic seductions during and after his life.

Author: Terry Castle
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019508098X
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.

Author: Lady Isabel Burton
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Languages : en
Pages : 828

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