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Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity (Hardcover)
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Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
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The Regency period in general, and the aristocrat-poet Lord Byron
in particular, were notorious for scandal, but the historical
circumstances of this phenomenon have yet to be properly analysed.
Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity explores Byron's celebrity
persona in the literary, social, political and historical contexts
of Regency Britain and post-Napoleonic Europe that produced it.
Clara Tuite argues that the Byronic enigma that so compelled
contemporary audiences - and provoked such controversy with its
spectacular Romantic Satanism - can be understood by means of
'scandalous celebrity', a new form of ambivalent fame that mediates
between notoriety and traditional forms of heroic renown. Examining
Byron alongside contemporary figures including Caroline Lamb,
Stendhal, Napoleon Bonaparte and Lord Castlereagh, Tuite
illuminates the central role played by Byron in the literary,
political and sexual scandals that mark the Regency as a vital
period of social transition and emergent celebrity culture.
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