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Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out
Paul Elledge
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Hardcover. How did Byron become "Byron"? The author of this text locates one origin of the poet's personae in the dramatic recitations he performed at Harrow School, in this examination of the four critically formative years of Byron's public school experience. Throughout, the poet is recognized in the boy. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
How did Byron become "Byron"? In Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out, Paul Elledge locates one origin of the poet's personae in the dramatic recitations young Byron performed at Harrow School. This is the first book-length scholarly examination of the four critically formative years of Byron's public school experience, 1801 to 1805, when Harrow enjoyed high subscription and fame under Dr. Joseph Drury, headmaster. Finding its genesis in the boy's intrepid appearance on three Speech Day programs, the book argues that Byron's early performances addressed anxieties, conflicts, rivalries, and ambitions that were ... Read more
How did Byron become "Byron"? In Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out, Paul Elledge locates one origin of the poet's personae in the dramatic recitations young Byron performed at Harrow School. This is the first book-length scholarly examination of the four critically formative years of Byron's public school experience, 1801 to 1805, when Harrow enjoyed high subscription and fame under Dr. Joseph Drury, headmaster. Finding its genesis in the boy's intrepid appearance on three Speech Day programs, the book argues that Byron's early performances addressed anxieties, conflicts, rivalries, and ambitions that were ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801863431
SKU
V9780801863431
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Ref
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About Paul Elledge
Paul Elledge is a professor of English and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Byron and the Dynamics of Metaphor.
Reviews for Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out
One of the best of the many partial biographies that Byron has received... Thanks to Elledge's psychobiographical probing, not only the troubled youth but the mature poet comes better into focus.
John Clubbe Byron Journal Lord Byron at Harrow School is fine work. Elledge gives a valuable, detailed picture of Byron.
Paul Douglass European Romantic Review [A] witty ... Read more
John Clubbe Byron Journal Lord Byron at Harrow School is fine work. Elledge gives a valuable, detailed picture of Byron.
Paul Douglass European Romantic Review [A] witty ... Read more