Byronic heroes in nineteenth-century women's writing and screen adaptation / Sarah Wootton, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Durham University, UK.
2016
PR468.W6 W66 2016eb
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Byronic heroes in nineteenth-century women's writing and screen adaptation / Sarah Wootton, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Durham University, UK.
Author
Wootton, Sarah, author.
ISBN
9781137579348 (electronic book)
113757934X (electronic book)
9780230574397
0230574394
113757934X (electronic book)
9780230574397
0230574394
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 253 pages)
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PR468.W6 W66 2016eb
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820.9/928709034
Summary
"Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation charts a new chapter in the changing fortunes of a unique cultural phenomenon. This book examines the afterlives of the Byronic hero through the work of nineteenth-century women writers and screen adaptations of their fiction. It is a timely reassessment of Byron's enduring legacy during the nineteenth century and beyond, focusing on the charged and unstable literary dialogues between Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and a Romantic icon whose presence takes centre stage in recent screen adaptations of their most celebrated novels. The broad interdisciplinary lens employed in this book concentrates on the conflicted rewritings of Byron's poetry, his 'heroic' protagonists, and the cult of Byronism in nineteenth-century novels from Pride and Prejudice to Middlemarch, and extends outwards to the reappearance of Byronic heroes on film and in television series over the last two decades."-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Jane Austen's Byronic Heroes I: Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen's Byronic Heroes II: Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Gaskell's Byronic Heroes: Wives and Daughters and North and South
George Eliot's Byronic Heroes I: Early Works and Poetry
George Eliot's Byronic Heroes II: Later Works.
Jane Austen's Byronic Heroes II: Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Gaskell's Byronic Heroes: Wives and Daughters and North and South
George Eliot's Byronic Heroes I: Early Works and Poetry
George Eliot's Byronic Heroes II: Later Works.