“Romanticism” – and Byron

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4438-0113-3
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 430 Seiten

"Romanticism - and Byron" is a book in two parts.

In the first part, Dr Cochran examines "Romanticism" and shows that it is a word meaning anything, and therefore nothing. It is an academic construct created by academics, and has no basis in the writings of the early nineteenth century. Its continued use, argues Dr Cochran, is a modern marketing phenomenon solely.

In the second part, Dr Cochran examines the life and work of Byron in the non-"romantic" context of his contemporaries. He shows how Byron's antithetical nature created problems when he was forced into compromising situations with friends who were close to parts of his mind, yet irreconcilable with one another. This "mobility", argues Cochran, was often an embarrassment for Byron's social life, but of great benefit to his creativity.

This part of the book features chapters on Shelley, Scott, Blake, Keats, Coleridge and Wordsworth, and is notable for the amount of original archive documentation with which Cochran illustrates his theme.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cochran, Peter

Über Autor(innen)

Cochran, Peter
Dr Peter Cochran is the editor of the Newstead Byron Society Review and of the editions of Byron’s major works on the website of the International Byron Society. He has lectured on Byron in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Newstead, Glasgow, Liverpool, Versailles, Monckton, Messolonghi, Delphi, Gdansk, Salzburg, Yerevan and New York, and published numerous articles on the poet. He is author of the Byron entry in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, and of the entries on J.C.Hobhouse and E.J.Trelawny for the new DNB

Dr Peter Cochran is the editor of the Newstead Byron Society Review and of the editions of Byron’s major works on the website of the International Byron Society. He has lectured on Byron in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Newstead, Glasgow, Liverpool, Versailles, Monckton, Messolonghi, Delphi, Gdansk, Salzburg, Yerevan and New York, and published numerous articles on the poet. He is author of the Byron entry in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, and of the entries on J.C.Hobhouse and E.J.Trelawny for the new DNB