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Byron : a literary life / Caroline Franklin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, Caroline, 1949-
- Series:
- Macmillan literary lives
- Literary lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron.
- Poets, English--19th century--Biography.
- Poets, English.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills [England] ; New York : Palgrave, 2000.
- Summary:
- This is the first biography of Byron to focus on the poet as a professional writer and the circumstances of literary production of his major poems. It shows how Byron related his writing to a perceived readership in his experimentation with genre and style; and negotiated with his publishers in establishing the bounds of his challenge to political, sexual, and religious conventions. His aristocratic status enabled him to combine the face-saving appearance of insouciant dilettantism with a writing practice as dedicatedly professional as that of novelists like Scott and Dickens.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-197) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0333676637
- 0333676645
- 0312231520
- OCLC:
- 156038368
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