Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity
Author:   Clara Tuite (University of Melbourne)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   110
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Pages:   346
Publication Date:   29 December 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity


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Author:   Clara Tuite (University of Melbourne)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   110
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9781107082595


ISBN 10:   1107082595
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   29 December 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Prologue: proverbially notorious; Introduction: the meteor's milieu; Part I. Worldlings: 1. Caroline Lamb, more like a beast; 2. Stendhal, on his knees; 3. Napoleon, that fallen star; 4. Bloody Castlereagh; Part II. Writings: 5. Childe Harold IV and the pageant of his bleeding heart; 6. Don Juan: the life and work of infamous poems; Part III. After-Warriors: 7. Byron's Head and the pirate sphere; Epilogue: you may be devil; Bibliography.

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'Tuite traces the human relationships involved in the manufacture of a popular (or unpopular) idol [...] bringing her expertise as a Jane Austen scholar into sophisticated decodings of social space.' Jane Stabler, Times Higher Education Supplement


Author Information

Clara Tuite is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (Cambridge, 2002), co-editor, with Gillian Russell, of Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840 (Cambridge, 2002), and co-editor, with Claudia L. Johnson, of A Companion to Jane Austen (2009).

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