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1 online resource (301 pages) |
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Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London |
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Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Peter Cochran (1944-2015): an appreciation; List of abbreviations; Introduction; PART I Politics of writing and reading; 1 Byron criticism in the age of Margaret Thatcher and Michael Foot; 2 Byron's lyrics and the politics of publication; 3 Byron's manipulation of authors and addressees in his comical political poems; 4 Byron and the politics of writing women; 5 She walks in beauty like the night in which all cows are black: Byron's nonhuman; 6 Byron, Orwell, politics and the English language |
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PART II Politics in the poetry7 The politics and poetry of Byron's Romantic Hellenism: Fragmentation as a discursive strategy in The Giaour; 8 Poetry, politics and prophecy: The Age of Bronze, The Vision of Judgment and The Prophecy of Dante; 9 Byron the Cynic; 10 Systems and their boundaries: Byron's poetry and politics in Italy; 11 The politics of Don Juan; 12 'A wilderness of the most rare conceits': Imagining politics in the English cantos of Don Juan; 13 Byron and the politics of heroic transformation; PART III 'When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home ... ' |
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14 'I am not made for what you call a politician': Byron's silent parliamentary experiences15 Byron and the 'Spanish Patriots': The poetry and politics of the Peninsular War (1808-1814); 16 History, prophecy, revolution: Italian politics in Byron and Foscolo; 17 From Risorgimento to fascism: The politics of Parisina; 18 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, British travellers to Greece and the 'idea of Europe'; 19 The politics of altruism; 20 Byron and Greece: lessons in 'political economy'; Afterword; General index; Index of Byron's works |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jones, Christine Kenyon
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| ISBN |
9781317170297 |
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1317170296 |
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