The Byronic hero : types and prototypes / Peter L. Thorslev, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thorslev, Peter L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heroes in literature.

Romanticism.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Characters--Heroes.

Byron, George Gordon Byron.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1962]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Byronic Hero was first published in 1962. This study of the origins and development of the Romantic hero through its apogee in the works of Byron critically examines the major Romantic heroes of comparative literature and places them in the wider perspective of history. Professor Thorslev devotes the first part of his discussion to the cultural origins and ""family relationships"" of a range of pre-Romantic and Romantic hero types, and to analyses of those aspects of the spirit of the times which each hero symbolizes. He shows that these forebears of the Byronic Hero -- the Child of Nature

Contents:

pt. 1. Eighteenth-century hero types

pt. 2. Romantic hero types

pt. 3. Byronic heroes.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816669448

0816669449

9780816664696

0816664692

OCLC:

476162286