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Byron and the Victorians (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Book

This book is about the influence of Byron, the most famous British poet of the early nineteenth century, on later nineteenth-century writers. Byron's fame depended on the assumption that he and his heroes were identical: the author of this book argues that he was the first modern celebrity. He discusses Byron's influence on six Victorian authors: Carlyle, Emily Brontë, Tennyson, Bulwer-Lytton, Disraeli, and Wilde. The discussions concentrate on issues of class, gender, popularity and sexuality.Read More

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    This book is the first full-length study of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on Carlyle, Emily Brontë, Tennyson, Bulwer-Lytton, Disraeli and Wilde. It has two emphases--to demonstrate the ways that institutions of cultural production mediate the access that later writers have to earlier ones, and to suggest the many different responses that Victorian writers had to Byron and to his celebrity in British culture. It argues that defining oneself against Byron became a ritual of the Victorian authorial career. Victorian writers did not reject Byron outright: instead, they defined themselves through fictions of personal development away from values associated with Byron toward those associated with themselves as mature Victorian writers.

  • 0521454522
  • 9780521454520
  • Andrew Elfenbein
  • 30 March 1995
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 300
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