Byron, Napoleon, J.C. Hobhouse and the hundred days / by Peter Cochran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cochran, Peter, 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Friends and associates.

Byron, George Gordon Byron.

Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869--Diaries.

Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse.

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821--Contemporaries.

Napoleon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

Napoleon was, after his defeat at Leipzig, "granted" the island of Elba to rule. He soon found this unsatisfactory, and, early in 1815, left for the south of France, and marched on Paris to some acclamation. He was, all too quickly, defeated at Waterloo. Observing all this was Byron's friend J.C. Hobhouse, an ardent Bonapartist. Byron, who posed as one, never answered his letters from the thick of things in Paris.This book is structured in four layers, and begins with an essay about Byron and Napoleon, which is then followed by Byron's poems about Napoleon and Hobhouse's diary. Hobhouse's lett

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Abbreviations

Chronology

Introduction

Byron's Napoleonic Poems (pre-Waterloo)

Hobhouse's Diary and Letters from the Hundred Days

Byron's Napoleonic Poems (post-Waterloo)

Epilogue

Appendix

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8238-0

OCLC:

922704187