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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Named Person: | George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron; George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jonathan David Gross |
ISBN: | 0742511618 9780742511613 0742511626 9780742511620 |
OCLC Number: | 1013361577 |
Description: | xi, 231 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Chapter 1 Byron: The Erotic Liberal Chapter 2 Byron's Politics of Feeling Chapter 3 Byron's Politics of Sentimentalism Chapter 4 Byron and the Story of Joseph: The Bride of Abydos, Hebrew Melodies, and Don Juan Chapter 5 Cosmopolitan Liberalism: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, III, and De L'Allemagne Chapter 6 "Get[ting] into Lord's Ground": Byron's Aristocratic Liberalism in the Pope-Bowles Controversy and Marino Faliero Chapter 7 "One Half of What I Should Say": Byron's Gay Narrator in Don Juan Chapter 8 The Liberal as Periodical and Political Posture Chapter 9 "Still Let Me Love!": Byron in Greece Chapter 10 Byron and the Liberal Imagination in America |
Responsibility: | Jonathan David Gross. |
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Byron's politics are so complicated that few have even attempted to write book-length studies about them, and Gross should be commended for even trying to take on such a bewildering complex set of issues. We emerge from his book full of insights and questions about the meaning of the term 'liberal' and the ways it might be nuanced by one's erotic vitality. -- James Soderholm, Baylor University Byron: The Erotic Liberal is a keen biographical and critical account of Byron's politics of feeling. In such chapters as that on the narrator of Don Juan as homoerotic, Gross provokes and persuades. -- Carl Woodring, Columbia University Jonathan Gross demonstrates a sound knowledge of historical contexts, cultural codes, and Byron scholarship. * Studies In Romanticism * This book is a significant contribution to Byron studies. Gross is well informed in the social and political details of Byron's English milieu, but he is also well prepared to read Byron's career as erotic liberal through the lens of contemporary gay studies and through the biblical story of Joseph. His ability to see connections between Byron and contemporary American liberalism is ingenious. -- Peter Graham, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Read more...


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- Byron, George Gordon Byron, -- Baron, -- 1788-1824 -- Political and social views.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, -- Baron, -- 1788-1824.
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Political poetry, English -- History and criticism.
- Sentimentalism in literature.
- Liberalism in literature.
- Emotions in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Political and social views.
- Political poetry, English.
- Politics and literature.
- Great Britain.