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BYRON'S HEROINES
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| By: |
Caroline Franklin |
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Hardback |
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£112.50 |
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£98.44 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198112300 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198112303 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
3 September, 1992 |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Description: |
This is the first feminist critique of Lord Byron's depiction of women. The heroines of his narrative and dramatic verse are considered in the light of the early 19th century debate on the role of woman in society and are compared with the heroines of Byron's contemporaries. |
| Synopsis: |
'Alas! the love of women! it is known/ To be a lovely and fearful thing!' Don Juan, II. 199 Traditionally seen as an archetypal masculine poet, better known for his relationships with women than for the sympathetic study of them, Lord Byron has not lent himself easily to a feminist critique hitherto. In this, the first such example, Caroline Franklin takes an original and polemical standpoint, reading Byron within the setting of the contemporary debate on the nature, role, and rights of women in society. The heroines of Byron's narrative and dramatic verse are considered, not from a biographical perspective, but by relating these representations to ideologies of sexual difference which obtained in the poet's day. Viewed in their literary-historical context, these Byronic heroines are compared with other female protagonists of the age, thereby revealing the poet to be unusually honest and bold in his portrayal of female sexuality and its relation to political issues.Drawing upon original research materials, yron's Heroines presents the poet in a fresh and original context as well as making an important contribution to the debate regarding the representation of women in early nineteenth-century society. |
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2 halftones |
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UK |
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Clarendon Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Winner of the Elma Dangerfield prize for Byron Studies 1993 and |
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