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Byron in Geneva

Autor David Ellis
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mai 2011
In 1816, following the scandalous collapse of his marriage, Lord Byron left England forever. His first destination was the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva, where he stayed with Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori. Byron in Geneva focuses sharply on the poet’s life in the summer of that year, a famous time for meteorologists—for whom 1816 is the year without a summer—but also that crucial moment in the development of his writing when, urged on by Shelley, Byron tried to transform himself into a Romantic poet of the Wordsworthian variety.
 
The book not only gives a vivid impression of what Byron thought and felt in these few months after the breakdown of his marriage, but it also explores the different aspects of his nature that emerge in contact with a remarkable cast of supporting characters, including Madame de Staël—who presided over a famous salon in Coppet, across the lake from Geneva—and Matthew Lewis, author of the splendidly erotic gothic best-seller, The Monk. David Ellis sets out to challenge recent damning studies of Byron and, through his meticulous exploration of the private and public life of the poet at this pivotal moment, he reasserts the value of Byron’s wit, warm-heartedness, and hatred of cant.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781846316432
ISBN-10: 184631643X
Pagini: 189
Dimensiuni: 165 x 241 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Liverpool University Press

Cuprins

Preface
Acknowledgements
Map of Byron's Switzerland

Part One
1. Heading for Geneva
2. The Shelley Party
3. On the Road
4. First Meetings
5. Diodati
6. Frightening Tales
7. A Narrow Escape
8. Chillon, Clarens and Ouchy
Part Two
9. Coppet
10. Romans à clef
11. Chamonix
12. The Problem of Claire and the First of the Visitors
13. Reconciliation
14. Old Friends
15. Polidori Does Not Suit
16. The Jungfrau
Afterwords
1. Lewis, de Staël and ‘Poor Polidori’
2. The Shelley Party and Allegra
3. The Road to Greece
4. Last Rites

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

“A brilliantly detailed retelling of the personal and literary crisis in Byron’s life. Vivid, sympathetic, and judicious, this remarkable book is a provocative counter to recent biographical and critical studies.”


 

“A succinct and full account of one eventful summer in the lives of some extraordinarily talented young writers. Who needs embellishment when the facts are as interesting as these?”

“Ellis deftly sketches Byron’s expatriate existence in Switzerland, presenting Geneva as a city of ironclad Calvinist rectitude that perversely became the destination of a succession of freethinking outcasts.”


 

“Renewed attention to the summer of 1816 allows us to see Byron afresh, untrammeled by the ideological perspectives of his most recent biographers. . . . Ellis certainly succeeds in adding color and detail to a well-known story.”

"A thorough and energetic micro-examination of one pivotal season in a collection of pivotal lives. No student of Byron or the Romantics should miss it."—Open Letters Monthly


Notă biografică

David Ellis is professor emeritus of English at the University of Kent.