Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Description for Byron in Geneva
Hardback. In 1816, following the scandalous collapse of his marriage, Lord Byron left England forever. His first destination was the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva where he stayed together with Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin, Claire Clairmont and John Polidori. This title focuses on the poet's life in the summer of that year. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFH; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
In 1816, following the scandalous collapse of his marriage, Lord Byron left England forever. His first destination was the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva where he stayed together with Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin, Claire Clairmont and John Polidori. Byron in Geneva focuses sharply on the poet’s life in the summer of that year, a famous time for meteorologists (for whom 1816 is the year without a summer), but also that crucial moment in the development of his writing when, urged on by Shelley, Byron tried to transform himself into a Romantic poet of the Wordsworthian variety. The ... Read more
In 1816, following the scandalous collapse of his marriage, Lord Byron left England forever. His first destination was the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva where he stayed together with Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin, Claire Clairmont and John Polidori. Byron in Geneva focuses sharply on the poet’s life in the summer of that year, a famous time for meteorologists (for whom 1816 is the year without a summer), but also that crucial moment in the development of his writing when, urged on by Shelley, Byron tried to transform himself into a Romantic poet of the Wordsworthian variety. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846316432
SKU
V9781846316432
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About David Ellis
David Ellis is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Kent. His previous books include Death and the author: how D. H. Lawrence died, and was remembered (OUP, 2008) and Literary Lives: Biography and the search for understanding (EUP, 2003). His website can be found at: http://dellis-author.co.uk
Reviews for Byron in Geneva
David Ellis’s informative and happily readable account of Byron’s summer in Geneva touches on the scandals that the participants themselves took some care to edit for posterity, and the large themes of conventional literary biography line up and salute. But this modest book may be most useful for its nuanced account of personalities in that transitional moment when the manic ... Read more