Byron
Subtitle: a literary life
By: Caroline Franklin.
Series: Literary lives; Literary lives (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This is the first biography of Byron to focus on the poet as a professional writer and the circumstances of literary production of his major poems. It shows how Byron related his writing to a perceived readership in his experimentation with genre and style; and negotiated with his publishers in establishing the bounds of his challenge to political, sexual, and religious conventions.

His aristocratic status enabled him to combine the face-saving appearance of insouciant dilettantism with a writing practice as dedicatedly professional as that of novelists like Scott and Dickens."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-197) and index.