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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2015
      December 2014
      ISBN:
      9781316009666
      9781107082595
      9781107442955
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316009666
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 346 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 346 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (110)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (110)
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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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    'Tuite traces the human relationships involved in the manufacture of a popular (or unpopular) idol […] bringing her expertise as a Jane Austen scholar into sophisticated decodings of social space.'

    Jane Stabler Source: Times Higher Education Supplement

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