Lord Byron and Madame de Staël: Born for OppositionRoutledge, 13. aug. 2018 - 210 sider Published in 1999. Lord Byron and Madam de Stael made a great impression on Europe in the throes of the Napoleonic Wars, through their personalities, the versions of themselves which they projected through their works, and their literary engagement with contemporary life. However, the strong links between them have never before been explored in detail. This pioneering study looks at their personal relations, from their verbal sparring in Regency society, through the friendship which developed in Switzerland after Byron left England in 1816, to Byron’s tributes to Mme de Stael after her death. It concentrates on their literary links, both direct responses to each other’s works, and the copious evidence of shared concerns. The study deals with their treatment of gender, their grappling with the possibilities for heroic endeavour, their engagement with the social and political situations of Britain, France and Italy, and their conceptions of the role of the writer. Although Byron will need no introduction, Mme de Stael’s standing as a French romantic writer of the first rank is made plain by the strong impact of her writings on the English Poet. |
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... claimed attention because of her connection with Percy, her role as Byron's amanuensis, and Byron's presence on the occasion which provided the germ of Frankenstein; needless to say, her step-sister Claire Clairmont has long been ...
... claims that there, he came across as 'bitter, sarcastic, taking pleasure in scandalizing the puritanism of Geneva society with irreligious comments'.16 However this may be, by September 1816, we find Byron admitting, in a rather self ...
... claims for her superiority vis-à-vis male novelists. When he did rank her highly enough for her to compete with men, he seemed to feel on occasion that such talent was unnatural in a woman: according to another journal entry, 'she is a ...
... claiming that 'this will be her best work – & permanently historical'25 – unusual praise in a period when women writers were generally considered incapable of historical analysis. (As it turned out, Staël died before any arrangements ...
... claimed that Staël's experience as a political refugee meant that she 'saw through the prejudices by which she was surrounded', and that 'her ever-active, enquiring mind' had the chance 'of comparing the spirits and the ideals of one ...
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