Autorentext

Jonathan Gross is Professor of English at DePaul University. He is the author of Byron: The Erotic Liberal, The Life of Anne Damer: Portrait of a Regency Artist, and editor of Byron's "Corbeau Blanc": The Life and Letters of Lady Melbourne.

Klappentext

This book considers how Byron's cosmopolitanism, mobility, and chameleon style influenced Byron's identity in West and Eastern Europe. Transformed by French translations, Byron's work was read by Thomas Moore, Ugo Foscolo, Lady Mosergan, Madame de Staël, Adam Mickiewicz and Alexander Pushkin. His ironic style in "The Island" anticipated themes explored by Harlem Renaissance writers such as Countee Cullen and Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, while his death in Greece shaped how Adam Mickiewicz and Alexander Pushkin chose to live and end their lives.

Inhalt

Figures; Frequently Cited Works; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Camp Strategies in Walpole, Beckford, Byron, and Damer: The Example of Manfred; Part I: Imitation, Madness, Improvisation; One; Part II: Orphic Music and Moral Self-Discipline; "Fare thee Well!": Polish and Russian RESPONSES TO BYRONISM; Conclusion: Freemasonry in Manfred-Byron, Mickiewicz, and Pushkin; Bibliography; Index