Medwin's Conversations of Lord Byron (eBook)

Ernest J. Lovell (Herausgeber)

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2015
310 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7815-4 (ISBN)

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One of the most racy, entertaining, and valuable contemporary accounts of Byron, Medwin's Conversations created a furor among Byron’s many friends and enemies, especially those who appear in it. In the notes to this edition, Professor Lovell has assembled in the appropriate place comments on and corrections of Medwin’s account by Lady Byron, John Cam Hobhouse, E.J. Trelawny, Sir Charles Napier, John Murray, John Galt, William Harness, Robert Southey, Lady Caroline Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Mary Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, Countess Teresa Guiccioli William Fletcher, and others. The result is a continuing dialogue as one. witness debates with another. The text is based upon Medwin’s own copy of the third London edition of 1824, heavily annotated by the author.Originally published in 1966.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: A Curious Thing (Once Upon a Time) • Aeschylus • A Midsummer Night's Dream • Anecdote • Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron • Antonio (The Merchant of Venice) • Augusta Leigh • A Vision of Judgment • Benjamin Disraeli • Bertrand Russell • Blackwood's Magazine • carbonari • Cicisbeo • declamation • Dichtung und Wahrheit • Domestic tragedy • Earl of Lytton • Earl of Oxford • Edmund Blunden • Epigram • Foe (novel) • French poetry • George Ticknor • Giorgione • Glenarvon • G. (novel) • Goethe's Faust • Grand Duchy • Harriette Wilson • henry mackenzie • his woman • Horace Walpole • Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe) • Iris Origo • James Boswell • jane williams • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • John Donne • John William Polidori • Julian and Maddalo • Lady Caroline Lamb • Lady Hester Stanhope • Lord Byron • Lord Edward FitzGerald • Lucretius • Mary Shelley • Memoir • Mephistopheles • Misery (novel) • Misfortune (folk tale) • Mock-heroic • My Reputation • Parody • Paul et Virginie • Percy Bysshe Shelley • petrarch • Physiognomy • Poetry • Polonius • Prithee • Proscription • Queen Mab (poem) • ridicule • Rough Draft (novel) • Sardanapalus (play) • Satanic School • Satire • Scribner's Magazine • S. (Dorst novel) • Sir Thomas More (play) • Snug (A Midsummer Night's Dream) • soliloquy • Sonnet • Superiority (short story) • Symplegades • Termagant • The Decameron • The Firebrand • The Giaour • The Goths • The Grand Duke • The Man of Feeling • The Necessity of Atheism • Theodore Hook • The Physician • The Siege of Corinth (poem) • The Two Foscari (Byron) • The Two Gentlemen of Verona • Thomas Love Peacock • Thomas Medwin • Travels (book) • Ugo Foscolo • Ugolino and His Sons • valet • vathek • Veracity (Mark Lavorato novel) • William Godwin • William Michael Rossetti • William Shakespeare • Zastrozzi
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7815-2 / 1400878152
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7815-4 / 9781400878154