Byron and the Victorians (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780521607087
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 19th century; Semiotics & Theory; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism; English literature--19th century--History and; English literature--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Literary Criticism : Semiotics & Theory
First sentence: Bryon's descriptions revealed such insight into what early nineteenth-century readers had learned to consider the most intimate aspects of human emotion that they seemed to be transcripts of experience, not portrayals of imaginary beings.