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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... death show Byron using this event – like so many others – as an opportunity to present versions of himself to his readers. Yet, as so often in Byron too, there is also a 'truth in masquerade', in this case, a genuine link between Staël ...
... death, in a letter sent to Murray a week before enclosing the poem discussed earlier, contains no irreverence: 'I have been very sorry to hear of the death of Me. de Stael – not only because she had been very kind to me at Coppet – but ...
... death in 1817 meant that there was much of his oeuvre that she never read). None the less, her first biographer, her cousin Mme Necker de Saussure, commented that Byron's poems caused Staël inexpressible emotions, and had a revivifying ...
... death early in 1822 gave him the right to style himself 'Noel Byron', he always signed his letters this way – or just with 'NB', the initials he had come to share with Napoleon.55 Mme de Staël and Lord Byron were both, none the less ...
... death penalty for the 'Luddite' framebreakers of Nottingham, and to support Catholic Emancipation in Ireland. Abroad, he was of course involved in independence movements in Italy and Greece. But Byron's British career was hampered by ...
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