Byron and the Victorians

by Andrew Elfenbein

Book Overview

This book is the first full-length study of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on Carlyle, Emily Bront?, Tennyson, Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, and Wilde. It has two emphases, theoretical and literary-historical. Its theoretical project is to revise earlier understanding of literary influence through a demonstration of the ways that institutions of cultural production mediate the access that later writers have to earlier ones. Its literary-historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521607086
• ISBN13: 9780521607087
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"