Summer in the Shadow of Byron by Andrew Mcconnell Stott

Summer in the Shadow of Byron by Andrew Mcconnell Stott

A glittering group biography from the award winning author of The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi

The Vampyre Family is a thrilling tale about the pursuit of love, sex and fameAndrew McConnell Stott provides a dual portrait of the Romantic spirit during its most intense period of creativity, and uncovers the emotional devastation that was left in its wake -- AMANDA FOREMAN, the bestselling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

Praise for The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi:

'Brilliant . . . As a portrait of London life in all its mutinous and anarchic variety this book would be hard to beat

* * Spectator * *
A fast-paced rumbustious biography . . . Stott evokes both the dizzying excitement and the harshness of theatrical life -- Jenny Uglow * * Observer * *
[A] great big Christmas pudding of a book, almost over-stuffed with rich and colourful life * * Guardian 'Book of the Week' * *
Stott's dynamic dramatization grabs our attention, and we, too, as outsiders [like Claire and Polidori], are cannily lured into the poetic celebrity's inner circle * * Times Literary Supplement * *

Andrew McConnell Stott is Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, a history of theatre and comedy told through the story of Britain's greatest pantomime clown, was published by Canongate in 2009 and won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction, the Sheridan Morley Award for Theatre Biography, and the George Freedley Memorial Award. It was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' and was named by the Guardian as one of its 'Books of the Year.'


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ISBN 13	9781847678720
ISBN 10	1847678726
Title	Summer in the Shadow of Byron
Author	Andrew Mcconnell Stott
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Canongate Books
Year published	2015-01-15
Number of pages	464
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