Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial SocietyJohns Hopkins University Press, 1993 - 426 ページ According to Jerome Christensen, literary histories of British Romanticism have dealt inadequately with Byron's "lordship" - his singularity as a phenomenal literary success and as the last and greatest aristocratic poet in the language. At first, Byron does not want a poetic career. Then, entrapped by his extraordinary success, he gets one. And once Byron has a career, he ruins it - not by his unsavory sexual practices and political grandstanding but by publishing his greatest poem. The first extended study of the career and persona of the most celebrated poet of the nineteenth century, Lord Byron's Strength draws on contemporary literary, political, and social theory not only to revise our understanding of Byron but also to reexamine the romanticism of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Scott, Hazlitt, and Shelley. Christensen argues that the literary system that became "Byronism" was a complicated contrivance engineered by the poet - in collaboration with his publisher, friends, reviewers, and readers - for the greater glory of a United Kingdom triumphant in the war with Napoleon. Wellington may have won on the battlefield, but the real victory for Great Britain would depend on its ability to symbolize itself in a way that would overcome foreign resistance without force of arms - that would turn enemies into consumers. Christensen contends that Byron was the predominant vehicle for that strategy. British commercial society would benefit extravagantly from the international success of Childe Harold and the glamour and appeal of its author. But Byronism was a project that - in Don Juan, his greatest poem - Byron would reject. Lord Byron's Strength is an account of the packaging and sale of Byron, the poet's increasing resistance to the constraints of Byronism, and his eventual break with the commercial society that had made him its symbol. |
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... play as something that is not and could not be represented in the play and therefore , of course , could never be censored from the performance of the play : Steno's squib , the text that provokes all the action while causing nothing ...
... play as something that is not and could not be represented in the play and therefore , of course , could never be censored from the performance of the play : Steno's squib , the text that provokes all the action while causing nothing ...
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... play over all the examples of itself that will ever be staged . But - and this is where the play breaks with Constant - the play's ironic critique of Asiatic despotism entails only the abandonment of the Oriental technology of swaying ...
... play over all the examples of itself that will ever be staged . But - and this is where the play breaks with Constant - the play's ironic critique of Asiatic despotism entails only the abandonment of the Oriental technology of swaying ...
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... play triumphs in its imagination of its ability to command a purchase as if it were freely willed . Fully specular , the play reinforces its rule by imagining the consumption of its own consumer - an effect epito- mized by Myrrha's last ...
... play triumphs in its imagination of its ability to command a purchase as if it were freely willed . Fully specular , the play reinforces its rule by imagining the consumption of its own consumer - an effect epito- mized by Myrrha's last ...
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The Performance of Lordship | 3 |
An English Bard Scotch Reviewers | 32 |
Childe | 49 |
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