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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462943503321

Autore

Beaton Roderick

Titolo

Byron's War : Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution / / Roderick Beaton [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-35797-7

1-107-34460-3

1-107-34929-X

1-107-34835-8

1-107-34585-5

1-139-51930-1

1-107-34210-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

821/.7

Soggetti

Greece Civilization Influence

Greece In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Land of lost gods -- ... and modern monsters -- The Road to revolution (1816-1823) -- Reluctant radical -- 'Prophet of a noble contest' -- Death by water, transfiguration by fire -- The deformed transformed -- Greece: "Tis the cause makes all' (July-December 1823) -- Preparations for battle -- Wavering -- The new statesman -- Missolonghi: The hundred days (January-april 1824) -- 'Political economy' -- Confronting the warlords -- Pyrrhic victory.

Sommario/riassunto

Roderick Beaton re-examines Lord Byron's life and writing through the long trajectory of his relationship with Greece. Beginning with the poet's youthful travels in 1809-1811, Beaton traces his years of fame in London and self-imposed exile in Italy, that culminated in the decision to devote himself to the cause of Greek independence. Then comes Byron's dramatic self-transformation, while in Cephalonia, from Romantic rebel to 'new statesman', subordinating himself for the first time to a defined, political cause, in order to begin laying the foundations, during his 'hundred days' at Missolonghi, for a new kind



of polity in Europe - that of the nation-state as we know it today. Byron's War draws extensively on Greek historical sources and other unpublished documents to tell an individual story that also offers a new understanding of the significance that Greece had for Byron, and of Byron's contribution to the origin of the present-day Greek state.