Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron LegendUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2021/10/21 - 224 ページ Byron was—to echo Wordsworth—half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that "to seduce is to die to reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion." But among the readers he seduced, in person and in poetry, were women possessed of vivid imaginations who collaborated with him in fashioning his legend. Accused of "treating women harshly," Byron acknowledged: "It may be so—but I have been their martyr. My whole life has been sacrificed to them and by them." Those whom he spell bound often returned the favor in their own writings tried to remake his public image to reflect their own. Through writings both well known and generally unknown, James Soderholm examines the poet's relationship with five women: Elizabeth Pigot, Caroline Lamb, Annabella Milbanke, Teresa Guiccioli, and Marguerite Blessington. These women participated in Byron's life and literary career and the manipulation of images that is the Byron legend. Soderholm argues against the sentimental depictions of biographers who would preserve Byron's romantic aura by diminishing the contributions of these women to his social, sexual, and literary identity. By restoring the contexts in which literary works charm or bedevil particular readers, the author shows the consequences of Byron's poetic seductions during and after his life. |
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... Biographers ignore key elements of their poetic and epistolary exchanges in order to simplify and sentimentalize her importance to him. Their most telling literary exchange appears in the margins of a book they had read, where Pigot ...
... Biographers from Thomas Moore to Leslie Marchand and Willis Pratt have cited Pigot's account of her introduction to Southwell's little Ovid. The first time I was introduced to him was at a party at his mother's, when he was so shy that ...
... herself the recipient of some of Byron's erotic poems. Biographers typically fasten on all the beautiful images associated with this former role and mostly ignore or sentimentalize the implications and nuances contained in.
... biographers often take up with the very “prevailing propensities” of the Southwell bevy which Byron found so amusing. This continuity of representation suggests the complicity of later biographers in the image industry that Byron, or ...
... biographers produce silhouettes. Indeed, the only representations we have of Pigot as a girl are the two silhouettes with which Megan Boyes supplies us. A silhouette can be thought of as the profile of a fantasy, or a fantasy in profile ...
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Lady Caroline Lamb | |
Annabella Milbanke | |
Teresa Guicciolis Transubstantiation | |
Lady Marguerite Blessington | |
Transcription of French Portions from a Séance with | |
Notes | |
Selected Bibliography | |