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Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend /

Byron was -- to echo Wordsworth -- half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that ""to seduce is to die to reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion."" But among the readers he seduced, in person and in poetry, were women posse...

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Auteur principal: Soderholm, James, 1957-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [1996]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Citations; Introduction: The Grammar of Glamour; 1 Trial Fantasies: Byron and Elizabeth Pigot; 2 Byron's Miniature Writ Large: Lady Caroline Lamb; 3 The Divining of Byron: Annabella Milbanke; 4 Unwriting His Body: Teresa Guiccioli's Transubstantiation of Byron; 5 The Art of Conversation: Lady Marguerite Blessington; Appendix A: Transcription of French Portions from a Seance with Byron; Appendix B: The Byron Legend in an Age of Artificial Intelligence; Notes; Selected Bibliography.