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Byron

A Literary Life

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Overview

Part of the book series: Literary Lives (LL)

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Keywords

  • Charles Dickens
  • poem
  • poet
  • poem
  • poet
  • poetics
  • poetry
  • political science
  • politics
  • British and Irish Literature

About this book

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 interacted and collaborated with other writers; how he tailored his writing to different circles of readers when experimenting with genre, style, and serial publication; how he 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 an actual writing practice as dedicatedly professional in many ways as that of novelists like Scott or Dickens.

About the author

CAROLINE FRANKLIN is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Swansea. She is author of Byron's Heroines (1992), and editor of The Romantics: Women Poets, 1770-1830, 12 Vols. (1996) and The Wellesley Series: British Romantic Poets, 6 Vols. (1998).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Byron

  • Book Subtitle: A Literary Life

  • Authors: C. Franklin

  • Series Title: Literary Lives

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-67663-9Due: 22 August 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-67664-6Due: 08 August 2000

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2037

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2045

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 240

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