Byromania
Subtitle: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780312212209
Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron; Influence; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Popular Culture - General; Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824; 1788-1824; 19th century; 20th century; Appreciation; Baron,; Byron, George Gordon Byron,; English literature; History; History and criticism; In literature; Popular culture; Literary Criticism
Description: The myth of Byron continues today and this collection of essays explores the development of Byronism from the poet's own attempts to construct and control his own image to the representations of Byron and the Byronic in portraiture, nineteenth-and twentieth-century literature, and contemporary film and drama.