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Author Cheeke, Stephen, 1967-

Title Byron and place : history, translation, nostalgia / Stephen Cheeke.

Imprint Houndmills [U.K.] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  821.7 B996Dch 2003    ---  Available
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.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Homes and haunts.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Knowledge -- Europe.
Translating and interpreting -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and history -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Nostalgia in literature.
Europe -- In literature.
History in literature.
Setting (Literature)
ISBN 1403904030 (alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 247887560
NLGGC 256451206

 
    
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