Byron and the Victorians

Literary-historical account of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on class and sexuality.

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Literary-historical account of Byron??'s influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on class and sexuality.

Résumé
This book is about the influence of Byron on later nineteenth-century writers. Using literary-historical methods, the author discusses Byron's influence on six Victorian authors, Carlyle, Emily Bronte, Tennyson, Bulwer-Lytton, Disraeli, and Wilde, and concentrates on issues of class, gender, and sexuality.

Contenu
Introduction; 1. Byron and the secret self; 2. The creation of Byronism; 3. Carlyle, Byronism, and the professional intellectual; 4. Byron at the margins: Emily Brontë and the fate of Milo; 5. The flight from vulgarity: Tennyson and Byron; 6. The shady side of the sword: Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, Wilde, and Byron's homosexuality; Afterword.