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Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend / James Soderholm.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soderholm, James, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self in literature.
- Fame--History--19th century.
- Fame.
- Women and literature--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Authors and readers--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Authors and readers.
- Literary forgeries and mystifications--History--19th century.
- Literary forgeries and mystifications.
- Poets, English--Biography--History and criticism.
- Poets, English.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Relations with women.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Authorship.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Citations; Introduction: The Grammar of Glamour; 1 Trial Fantasies: Byron and Elizabeth Pigot; 2 Byron's Miniature Writ Large: Lady Caroline Lamb; 3 The Divining of Byron: Annabella Milbanke; 4 Unwriting His Body: Teresa Guiccioli's Transubstantiation of Byron; 5 The Art of Conversation: Lady Marguerite Blessington; Appendix A: Transcription of French Portions from a Seance with Byron; Appendix B: The Byron Legend in an Age of Artificial Intelligence; Notes; Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-192) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813158952
- 0813158958
- OCLC:
- 604555944
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