Fantasy, forgery, and the Byron legend
Byron was -- to echo Wordsworth -- half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that ""to seduce is to die to reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion."" But among the readers he seduced, in person and in poetry, were women possessed of vivid imaginations who collaborated with him in fashioning his legend. Accused of ""treating women harshly, "" Byron acknowledged: ""It may be so -- but I have been their martyr. My whole life has been sacrificed to them and by them."" Those whom he spell bound often returned the favor in their own writings tried to
eBook, English, ©1996
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., ©1996
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Citations; Introduction: The Grammar of Glamour; 1 Trial Fantasies: Byron and Elizabeth Pigot; 2 Byron's Miniature Writ Large: Lady Caroline Lamb; 3 The Divining of Byron: Annabella Milbanke; 4 Unwriting His Body: Teresa Guiccioli's Transubstantiation of Byron; 5 The Art of Conversation: Lady Marguerite Blessington; Appendix A: Transcription of French Portions from a Seance with Byron; Appendix B: The Byron Legend in an Age of Artificial Intelligence; Notes; Selected Bibliography
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