Byronic heroes in nineteenth-century women's writing and screen adaptation / Sarah Wootton, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Durham, UK.

• Machine generated contents note: -- AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Jane Austen's Byronic Heroes I: Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility2. Jane Austen's Byronic Heroes II: Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice3. Elizabeth Gaskell's Byronic Heroes: Wives and Daughters and North and South4. George Eliot's Byronic Heroes I: Early Works and Poetry5. George Eliot's Byronic Heroes II: Later WorksNotesBibliographyIndex.

• "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."-- 

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Hjältar på tv  (sao)

Engelsk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Heroes in literature.  (LCSH)

Heroes in motion pictures.  (LCSH)

Heroes on television.  (LCSH)

English literature  -- Women authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

English literature  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Women and literature  -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

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Heroes in literature.  (fast)

Heroes in motion pictures.  (fast)

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Women and literature.  (fast)

Kvinnliga författare  -- historia (sao)

Kvinnor och litteratur  -- historia (sao)

LITERARY CRITICISM  -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. (bisacsh)

LITERARY CRITICISM  -- Gothic & Romance. (bisacsh)

LITERARY CRITICISM  -- Women Authors. (bisacsh)

PERFORMING ARTS  -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism. (bisacsh)

PERFORMING ARTS  -- Television -- History & Criticism. (bisacsh)

English literature  -- Women authors. (fast)

Heroes on television  (LCSH)

Heroes in literature  (LCSH)

Heroes in motion pictures  (LCSH)

Storbritannien  (sao)

Great Britain.  (fast)

1800-talet  (sao)

1800 - 1899  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Personnamn

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Influence.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.

Byron, George Gordon, baron, 1788-1824

Klassifikation

PR468.W6 (LCC)

820.9/928709034 (DDC)

LIT004120 (bisacsh)