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Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation Sarah Wootton

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation By Sarah Wootton

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation by Sarah Wootton


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Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation charts a new chapter in the changing fortunes of a unique cultural phenomenon.

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation Summary

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation by Sarah Wootton

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation charts a new chapter in the changing fortunes of a unique cultural phenomenon. This book examines the afterlives of the Byronic hero through the work of nineteenth-century women writers and screen adaptations of their fiction. It is a timely reassessment of Byron's enduring legacy during the nineteenth century and beyond, focusing on the charged and unstable literary dialogues between Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and a Romantic icon whose presence takes centre stage in recent screen adaptations of their most celebrated novels. The broad interdisciplinary lens employed in this book concentrates on the conflicted rewritings of Byron's poetry, his 'heroic' protagonists, and the cult of Byronism in nineteenth-century novels from Pride and Prejudice to Middlemarch, and extends outwards to the reappearance of Byronic heroes on film and in television series over the last two decades.

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation Reviews

One of the hallmarks of this wide ranging and erudite book is the literary authority Wootton brings to the endeavor. She makes a glancing mention of Woolf's Night and Day (1919) ... for example, but does so with concision, thereby providing the reader with an overview of themes in nineteenth-century literature. ... Wootton shows how women novelists rejected the 'vulgar Byronic personality' while adopting his 'narrative agility and robust ideas,' as they experimented with genre and form. (Jonathan Gross, European Romantic Review, Vol. 29 (04), 2018)
Wootton provides both substantive and nuanced analysis of the literary and film/television texts chosen for the book, and the absence of certain texts may be simply a matter of space. ... Throughout each section of the book, Wootton is strongly engaged with critics of Romantic and Victorian literature as well as film critics and reviewers who tracked the popularity of the various adaptations. Studies of literary influence can sometimes feel forced, but that is not the case here. (Cheryl A. Wilson, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 37 (1), 2018)

This is an informative monograph which prompts a re-thinking of Byron's ambivalent legacies. Elegantly written and impeccably researched, Wootton's study will be valuable to any scholars, students, or general readers interested in both the Romantic and the Victorian age as well as in the Byron phenomenon more broadly, and in twenty-first century media and film studies. ... the book takes on a subject that we thought we knew all about and discovers something fresh to say about it. (Carmen Casaliggi, Byron Journal, Vol. 45 (1), 2017)

About Sarah Wootton

Sarah Wootton is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, UK. She has published widely on nineteenth-century literature and the visual arts, with a particular focus on the afterlives of Romantic poets and Victorian women writers. She is the author of Consuming Keats: Nineteenth-Century Representations in Art and Literature (2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Jane Austen's Byronic Heroes I: Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility
2. Jane Austen's Byronic Heroes II: Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice
3. Elizabeth Gaskell's Byronic Heroes: Wives and Daughters and North and South
4. George Eliot's Byronic Heroes I: Early Works and Poetry
5. George Eliot's Byronic Heroes II: Later Works
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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NLS9781349555376
9781349555376
1349555371
Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation by Sarah Wootton
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2018-10-02
253
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