Tristan Donal Burke

Byronism, Napoleonism, and Nineteenth-Century Realism

Heroes of Their Own Lives?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Byronism, Napoleonism and Nineteenth-Century Realism offers a fresh analysis of the nineteenth-century European novel, exploring the cultural images of Byron and Napoleon as they appear in the construction of 'bourgeois heroism.'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780367749057
• ISBN-10: 036774905X
• Artikelnr.: 67823922

Autorenporträt

Tristan Donal Burke studied at the University of Manchester, and his thesis, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the University of Manchester's President's Doctoral Scholarship, was entitled 'Mutations of Heroism in Nineteenth-Century Modernity.' He is currently Teaching Fellow in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds. He recently published on Dickens's Bleak House and political violence in The London Journal, and his work with the Everyday Analysis Collective is published by Zer0 Books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: Byronism, Revolution and the Birth of Bourgeois Individualism:
Heroism in Pushkin and Lermontov
Chapter Two: David Copperfield: Byronic heroism and bourgeois privacy
Chapter Three: 'I can pick the right uniform for my century': Napoleonic
heroism and regimes of representation in Stendhal's The Red and the Black
Chapter Four: Napoleon at Vanity Fair: Costumes of Exiled Heroism
Conclusion
Bibliography