The American Byron

The American Byron
Title The American Byron PDF eBook
Author John W. M. Hallock
Publisher Univ of Wisconsin Press
Pages 244
Release 2000
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780299168049

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Hailed in the mid-19th century as the most important American poet of the period, Fitz-Greene Halleck was dubbed the American Byron and had a large general readership despite his work's infusion of homosexual themes. This biography portrays him as a prophet of the literary and sexual revolution.

The American Bibliopolist

The American Bibliopolist
Title The American Bibliopolist PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 438
Release 1869
Genre American literature
ISBN

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Lord Byron

Lord Byron
Title Lord Byron PDF eBook
Author Andrew Rutherford
Publisher Routledge
Pages 533
Release 2013-04-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1135035229

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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

Byron

Byron
Title Byron PDF eBook
Author C. Wilson
Publisher Springer
Pages 258
Release 2008-03-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0230611044

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This exciting collection represents a range of scholarly approaches and include close textual study, comparative readings, and broad cultural analysis. Contributors to this collection include Bernard Beatty, Peter Cochran, Marilyn Gaull, Charles E. Robinson, Andrew Stauffer, and Timothy Webb.

Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture

Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture
Title Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture PDF eBook
Author John Clubbe
Publisher Routledge
Pages 355
Release 2017-11-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1351162144

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Since the early nineteenth century, Byron, the man and his image, have captured the hearts and minds of untold legions of people of all political and social stripes in Britain, Europe, America, and around the world. This book focuses on the history and cultural significance for Federal America of the only portrait of Byron known to have been painted by a major artist. In private hands from 1826 until this day, Thomas Sully's Byron has never before been the subject of scholarly study. Beginning with his discovery of the portrait in 1999 and a 200-year narrative of the portrait's provenance and its relation to other well-known Byron portraits, the author discusses the work within the broad context of British and American portraiture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Receiving most attention are Thomas Lawrence and Sully, his American counterpart. The author gives the fullest account to date of Sully's career and his relation to English influences and to figures prominent in the early-nineteenth-century American imagination, among them, Washington, Fanny Kemble, Lafayette, Joseph Bonaparte, and Nicholas Biddle. Byron is discussed as an icon of the young American Republic whose Jubilee year coincided with Sully's initial work on the poet's portrait. Later chapters offer a close reading of the portrait, arguing that Sully has given a visual interpretation truly worthy of his celebrated, controversial, and famously handsome subject.

The American Census Handbook

The American Census Handbook
Title The American Census Handbook PDF eBook
Author Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 544
Release 2001
Genre History
ISBN 9780842029254

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Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.

Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas

Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas
Title Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas PDF eBook
Author Lauren Rule Maxwell
Publisher Purdue University Press
Pages 190
Release 2013-03-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1612492622

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Why are twentieth-century novelists from former British colonies in the Americas preoccupied with British Romantic poetry? In Romantic Revisions, Lauren Rule Maxwell examines five novels—Kincaid's Lucy, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Harris's Palace of the Peacock—that contain crucial scenes engaging British Romantic poetry. Each work adapts figures from British Romantic poetry and translates them into an American context. Kincaid relies on the repeated image of the daffodil, Atwood displaces Lucy, McCarthy upends the American arcadia, Fitzgerald heaps Keatsian images of excess, and Harris transforms the albatross. In her close readings, Maxwell suggests that the novels reframe Romantic poetry to allegorically confront empire, revealing how subjectivity is shaped by considerations of place and power. Returning to British Romantic poetry allows the novels to extend the Romantic poetics of landscape that traditionally considered the British subject's relation to place. By recasting Romantic poetics in the Americas, these novels show how negotiations of identity and power are defined by the legacies of British imperialism, illustrating that these nations, their peoples, and their works of art are truly postcolonial. While many postcolonial scholars and critics have dismissed the idea that Romantic poetry can be used to critique colonialism, Maxwell suggests that, on the contrary, it has provided contemporary writers across the Americas with a means of charting the literary and cultural legacies of British imperialism in the New World. The poems of the British Romantics offer postcolonial writers particularly rich material, Maxwell argues, because they characterize British influence at the height of the British empire. In explaining how the novels adapt figures from British Romantic poetry, Romantic Revisions provides scholars and students working in postcolonial studies, Romanticism, and English-language literature with a new look at politics of location in the Americas.