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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... hope of associated fame, which blunted the edge of censure, must cease to exist', and since she 'has ceased to be a woman', it is likely that 'many will repay themselves for former complaisance, by a severity to which the extravagance ...
... hopes she does not resemble Staël, as the latter is 'frightful as a precipice'.8 In this last comment, there is certainly an element of namedropping: Byron is highlighting the fact that the woman of Swiss background he knows best just ...
... hope for political change is generally invested in the endeavours of remarkable individuals, who are themselves often ... hopes for political change on heroes: like Stael, but perhaps more pessimistically, he sees that 'heroes' reflect ...
... hope, none the less, to have done some groundwork on which subsequent studies of the links between French and British Romanticism might be built. There is also, I believe, farther scope for relating both Staël and Byron to trends in ...
... hope that, by highlighting the literary links between France's leading female Romantic writer and a central male figure of British Romanticism, the present study will help to 7'Some Recollections of my Acquaintance with Madame de Stael ...
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