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Autore |
Beaton Roderick |
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Titolo |
Byron's War : Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution / / Roderick Beaton [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-107-23817-X |
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 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Greece Civilization Influence |
Greece In literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. |
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