Description |
ix, 241 p. ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-237) and index. |
Contents |
Being there: 1807-12 -- Newstead and Harrow -- 'I was present' -- Places without a name -- Being where? -- Travel plans -- The 'real' Parnassus -- The spirit and body of place: 1812-18 -- Having been there: the fantastical and the real -- Everywhere and somewhere: Childe Harold's pilgrimage III -- The mind is its own place: the prisoner of Chillon, Manfred, The lament of Tasso -- The spirit and body of place: Childe Harold's pilgrimage IV -- Translation: 1818-21 -- 'A strange sensation': Beppo, Mazeppa, Venice: an ode, Don Juan I, II -- 'I dare to build the imitative rhyme': the prophecy of Dante, translations from the Italian -- Translation, uprooting, radical politics: Marino Faliero, Don Juan V -- Nostalgia: 1821-24 -- Having been there / having seen (part one) -- The pathology of nostalgia: Sardanapalus, The two Foscari, Cain, heaven and earth -- Having been there / having seen (part two): Don Juan XI -- Dying in Greece. |
Subject |
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Settings.
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Homes and haunts.
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Knowledge -- Europe.
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Translating and interpreting -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and history -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Nostalgia in literature.
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Europe -- In literature.
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History in literature.
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Setting (Literature)
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ISBN |
1403904030 (alk. paper) |
Standard No. |
NLGGC 247887560 |
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NLGGC 256451206 |
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