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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... literary stature, also belittle her in gendered terms: 'for a woman / Her talents surely were uncommon' (11. 79-80). Moreover, hardly yet operating in that 'superior' sphere invoked in the Childe Harold tribute, Staël's works are to ...
... literary. Much writing on Byron's personal-cum-literary connections from 1816 has focused on his friendship with Percy Bysshe Shelley and his circle: both Byron and Shelley are, after all, British and poets. As far as links with women ...
... literary relationship of the famous summer at Diodation Lake Geneva.4 Byron was a regular visitor to Coppet, which was a wellknown magnet for writers and intellectuals: Staël's circle there included A.W. Schlegel, Benjamin Constant ...
... literary debt to her in a note to his poem The Bride of Abydos, he felt moved in his journal to try to account for her response: firstly, all women like all, or any praise; secondly, this was unexpected, because I have never courted her ...
... literary predilections of'ladies intellectual'. This study focuses, then, on the impact of each author's work on the writings of the other. But it also takes cognizance of the difficulty of locating straightforward evidence for this ...
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Citizens of the World | |
Born for Opposition | |
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