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This study of the origins and development of the Romantic hero through its apogee in the works of Byron critically examines the major Romantic heroes of comparative literature and places them in the wider perspective of history.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thorslev, Peter L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1962]
Subjects:
Byron, George Gordon Byron, > Baron, > 1788-1824 > Characters > Heroes.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, > Baron, > 1788-1824.
Held, Hieronymus > -1634
Byron, George Gordon Byron, > (1788-1824; > baron) > Critique et interprétation.
Byron, George Gordon Byron.
Heroes in literature.
Romanticism.
Héros dans la littérature.
Romantisme.
romanticism (form of expression)
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literatur
Romantik
Held
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Our Last Great Age of Heroes
  • Part 1. Eighteenth-Century Hero Types
  • The Child of Nature
  • the Hero of Sensibility: Man of Feeling Or Gloomy Egoist
  • The Gothic Villain
  • Part 2. Romantic Hero Types
  • The Noble Outlaw
  • Faust
  • Cain and Ahasuerus
  • Satan and Prometheus
  • Part 3. Byronic Heroes
  • Childe Harold
  • Four Turkish Tales
  • Two Metaphysical Dramas
  • The Byronic Hero and Heroic Tradition
  • Notes
  • Bibliographical Appendix on Hero Types
  • Index.
  • pt. 1. Eighteenth-century hero types
  • pt. 2. Romantic hero types
  • pt. 3. Byronic heroes.

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