Overview
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
About this book
This new study of Byron explores the 'geo-historical' - places where historically significant events have occurred. Cheeke examines the ways in which the notion of being there becomes the central claim and shaping force in Byron's poetry up to 1818. He goes on to explore the concept of being in-between which characterises Byron's 1818-21 poetry. Finally, Byron's complex nostalgia for England, his sense of having been there , is read in relation to a broader critique of memory, home-sickness and place-attachment.
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
Table of contents (6 chapters)
Reviews
'Stephen Cheeke's Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia is an important contribution to the study of Byron and of the place of 'place' in the culture of the romantic period. Erudite and clear, the book helps us to chart Byron's evolving relation to place, to locale, and particularly to historical rather than natural sites. While we have had good studies of Byron and history and of romantic places in relation to nature and consciousness, Cheeke reveals Byron engaging thoroughly historicized places.' - Jeffrey N. Cox, Professor, Comparative Literature and Humanities and English, University of Colorado
'This study of the authority and authenticity that Byron discovered at various 'geo-historical sites' is both rigorous and thought provoking. It excels at describing the overall shapes of poems as well as displaying precise close reading-skills. It is theoretically well informed but also prepared to improvise close-fitting intellectual frameworks. Cheeke describes in fresh terms an overall literary career and in so doing has made a significant contribution to Byron Studies.' - Tony Howe, New Hall, Cambridge, Romanticism
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
STEPHEN CHEEKE is Lecturer in the English department at Bristol University, who has published articles on Shelley, Byron and aspects of Romanticism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Byron and Place
Book Subtitle: History, Translation, Nostalgia
Authors: Stephen Cheeke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597884
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-0403-4Published: 15 April 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59788-4Published: 15 April 2003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 241
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature