Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity

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Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity

Statement of responsibility

Clara Tuite

Creator

• Tuite, Clara, 1964-

Subject

• Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Political and social views
• Fame -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Literature and society -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
• Scandals -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
• Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Influence

Language

eng

Summary

"The Regency period in general, and the aristocrat-poet Lord Byron in particular, were notorious for scandal, but the historical circumstances of this phenomenon have yet to be properly analysed. Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity explores Byron's celebrity persona in the literary, social, political and historical contexts of Regency Britain and post-Napoleonic Europe that produced it. Clara Tuite argues that the Byronic enigma that so compelled contemporary audiences - and provoked such controversy with its spectacular Romantic Satanism - can be understood by means of 'scandalous celebrity', a new form of ambivalent fame that mediates between notoriety and traditional forms of heroic renown. Examining Byron alongside contemporary figures including Caroline Lamb, Stendhal, Napoleon Bonaparte and Lord Castlereagh, Tuite illuminates the central role played by Byron in the literary, political and sexual scandals that mark the Regency as a vital period of social transition and emergent celebrity culture"--

Member of

• Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 110

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Provided by publisher

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DLC

Dewey number

821/.7

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR4392.S58

LC item number

T85 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Series volume

110