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Byronic heroes in nineteenth-century women's writing and screen adaptation

Wootton, Sarah, author

2016

Overview

\"Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation charts a new chapter in the changing fortunes of a unique cultural phenomenon. This book examines the afterlives of the Byronic hero through the work of nineteenth-century women writers and screen adaptations of their fiction. It is a timely reassessment of Byron's enduring legacy during the nineteenth century and beyond, focusing on the charged and unstable literary dialogues between Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and a Romantic icon whose presence takes centre stage in recent screen adaptations of their most celebrated novels. The broad interdisciplinary lens employed in this book concentrates on the conflicted rewritings of Byron's poetry, his 'heroic' protagonists, and the cult of Byronism in nineteenth-century novels from Pride and Prejudice to Middlemarch, and extends outwards to the reappearance of Byronic heroes on film and in television series over the last two decades.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 Influence. / English literature Women authors History and criticism. / English literature 19th century History and criticism. / Women and literature Great Britain History 19th century. / Heroes in literature. / Heroes in motion pictures. / Heroes on television. / LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. / LITERARY CRITICISM Gothic & Romance. / LITERARY CRITICISM Women Authors. / PERFORMING ARTS Film & Video History & Criticism. / PERFORMING ARTS Television History & Criticism.
• ISBN: 9780230574397, 0230574394

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR468.W6 W66 2016	1	BOOK	GENERAL