Byron's women
(Book)
Author
Published
London : Head of Zeus, 2016.
Format
Book
ISBN
9781784082024, 1784082023, 9781784082048 (pbk.)
Physical Desc
xii, 418 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, genealogical table ; 25 cm
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Published
London : Head of Zeus, 2016.
Language
English
ISBN
9781784082024, 1784082023, 9781784082048 (pbk.)
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-405) and index.
Description
"One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley's wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead. Nine women; one poet named George Gordon, Lord Byron - mad, bad and very very dangerous to know. The most flamboyant of the Romantics, he wrote literary bestsellers, he was a satirist of genius, he embodied the Romantic love of liberty (the Greeks revere him as a national hero), he was the prototype of the modern celebrity - and he treated women (and these women in particular) abominably. In BYRON'S WOMEN, Alex Larman tells their extraordinary, moving and often shocking stories. In so doing, he creates a scurrilous 'anti-biography' of one of England's greatest poets, whose life he views - to deeply unflattering effect - through the prism of the nine damaged woman's lives."--Publisher description.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Nonfiction | 821.7 BYRON LAR | Available |
Kinnelon Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | BIOG BYRON | Available |
Pequannock Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | BIOG BYRON | Available |
Whippanong Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | BIOG BYR | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Larman, A. (2016). Byron's women . Head of Zeus.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Larman, Alexander, 1981-. 2016. Byron's Women. Head of Zeus.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Larman, Alexander, 1981-. Byron's Women Head of Zeus, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Larman, Alexander. Byron's Women Head of Zeus, 2016.
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