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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... moral life remained a bone of contention for Byron, and his poetic exposés of what he saw as his compatriots' corruption and hypocrisy have as one of their targets the flattering self-image offered to them by Staël's works. In 1816 ...
... moral arbiters of others' conduct (a major theme of Delphine, and a central feature of what Byron called 'cant'). For both, the critical attitudes towards their own societies were reinforced by the exposure to other countries resulting ...
... moral grandeur which exists among Europeans', Britain was important to her primarily as 'the France of the future', a France for whose present she felt 'an anguished, angry, wounded love, which sometimes needfed] caustic expression'.41 ...
... morally compromised, can even share the faults of their enemies. In Don Juan, Byron demonstrates the likely futility of constantly pinning hopes for political change on heroes: like Stael, but perhaps more pessimistically, he sees that ...
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Citizens of the World | |
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