Byron : a literary life /
"This is the first biography of Byron to focus on the poet as a professional writer and the circumstances of literary production of his major poems. It shows how Byron related his writing to a perceived readership in his experimentation with genre and style; and negotiated with his publishers i...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Literary lives (New York, N.Y.)
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| Summary: | "This is the first biography of Byron to focus on the poet as a professional writer and the circumstances of literary production of his major poems. It shows how Byron related his writing to a perceived readership in his experimentation with genre and style; and negotiated with his publishers in establishing the bounds of his challenge to political, sexual, and religious conventions. His aristocratic status enabled him to combine the face-saving appearance of insouciant dilettantism with a writing practice as dedicatedly professional as that of novelists like Scott and Dickens."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 209 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-197) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0333676637 : 0333676645 (pbk.) : 0312231520 (cloth) 0333676637(cased) : 0333676645(pbk.) : 0333714865(series) |