Byron's Heroines

by Caroline Franklin

"Alas! the love of women! it is known/ To be a lovely and fearful thing!" (Don Juan, st. 199) Traditionally seen as an archetypal masculine poet, better known for his relationships with women than for the sympathetic study of them, Lord Byron has not lent himself easily to a feminist critique. In this, the first such example, Caroline Franklin takes an original and polemical standpoint, reading Byron within the setting of the contemporary debate on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198112300
• ISBN13: 9780198112303
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.