Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: our last great age of heroes
  • Part one: Eighteenth-century hero types
  • The child of nature
  • The hero of sensibility: man of feeling or gloomy egoist
  • The Gothic villain
  • Part two: Romantic hero types
  • The noble outlaw
  • Faust
  • Cain and Ahasuerus
  • Satan and Prometheus
  • Part three: Byronic heroes
  • Childe Harold
  • Four Turkish tales
  • Two metaphysical dramas
  • The Byronic hero and heroic tradition.