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

• Autore: Beaton Roderick
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 821/.7
• Soggetto geografico: Greece Civilization Influence; Greece In literature
• 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 Byron's War draws extensively on Greek historical sources and other unpublished documents to tell an individual story that also offers a new understanding of the significance that Greece had for Byron, and of Byron's contribution to the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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Byron's War
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462943503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II