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Author Franklin, Caroline, 1949-

Title Byron's heroines / Caroline Franklin
Published Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. 'At Once Above -- Beneath Her Sex': The Heroine in Male-authored Regency Verse Romance -- 2. 'A Soulless Toy for Tyrant's Lust?': The Heroine as Passive Victim -- 3. 'The Firmness of a Female Hand': The Active Heroines of the Tales -- 4. 'Quiet Cruising o'er the Ocean Woman': Byron's Don Juan and the Woman Question -- 5. 'Each Was Radiant in Her Proper Sphere': Byron's Theory of Repression from Greece to the 'Gynocrasy' -- 6. 'Why, What Is Virtue If It Needs a Victim?': Heroic Heroines in Regency Drama -- 7. 'My Hope Was to Bring Forth Heroes': The Fostering of Masculine Virtu by the Stoical Heroines of the Political Plays -- 8. 'Daughters of Earth': The Divided Self and the Heroines of the Mythological Dramas
Summary A 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
Analysis English poetry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Characters -- Heroines
SUBJECT Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 fast
Byron, George Gordon Byron, (1788-1824; baron) -- Personnages. ram
Subject Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
Heroines in literature.
Feminism and literature
Heroines in literature
Women and literature
Vrouwen.
Héroïnes (littérature)
Féminisme et littérature.
Féminisme et littérature -- Angleterre (GB) -- 19e siècle.
Femmes et littérature -- Angleterre (GB) -- 19e siècle.
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191670763
0191670766