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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... individual, and in this context, Byron is not just one (implicitly) great writer lauding another, but a man drawing on his personal knowledge of her. For during the summer of 1816, after he had fled abroad following the scandal-ridden ...
... individual. The two writers were passionately interested in political issues, and were sometimes placed so as to have some influence on political events, yet had to weigh up the prospects of direct political action, as against the ...
... individuals to make their mark. Staël had been in the public eye since childhood, when she had met the philosophes who patronized the salon of her mother Suzanne Necker during the 1770s and 1780s, while Byron became a celebrity at the ...
... individuals, and the political ideals being endorsed. Mme de Staël by no means lamented the Revolution's attempts to ... individual of their day, Napoleon Bonaparte. Staël was of course one of his most prominent antagonists, and much of ...
... individual, was that it was ultimately as writers that both Staëel and Byron sought to make a public impact. This is not to suggest that they had recourse to writing simply as a second-best option when more direct political agency ...
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Their She Condition | |
Heroines and Heroes | |
Citizens of the World | |
Born for Opposition | |
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