Byron in Geneva [[electronic resource] ] : that Summer of 1816 / / David Ellis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456925003321
• Autore: Ellis David <1939->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-78138-626-9; 1-84631-716-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
• Disciplina: 821.7
• Soggetti: British - Geneva, Lake (Switzerland and France) - History - 19th century; Poets, English - 19th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part One; 1 Heading for Geneva; 2 The Shelley Party; 3 On the Road; 4 First Meetings; 5 Diodati; 6 Frightening Tales; 7 A Narrow Escape; 8 Chillon, Clarens and Ouchy; Part Two; 9 Coppet; 10 Romans à clef; 11 Chamonix; 12 The Problem of Claire and the First of the Visitors; 13 Reconciliation; 14 Old Friends; 15 Polidori Does Not Suit; 16 The Jungfrau; Afterwords; 1 Lewis, de Staël and 'Poor Polidori'; 2 The Shelley Party and Allegra; 3 The Road to Greece; 4 Last Rites; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 book gives