Jane Austen and Lord Byron : Regency relations / Christine Kenyon Jones.
| Author/creator | Kenyon-Jones, Christine author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | xix, 242 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, genealogical table ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: A family affair: Musgraves, Milbankes, Austens and Byrons -- Reading each other: 'You could not shock her more than she shocks me' -- London: 'Dissipation & vice' -- Theatre and other entertainments: 'She was not deceived in her own expectations of pleasure' -- Portsmouths and Hansons: 'lunatizing' the Earl -- Publishing with John Murray: 'He is a Rogue of course, but a civil one' -- Fiction, finances and entail: 'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of' -- Prose, poetry, private and public: 'Who would write, who had any thing better to do?' - Conclusion: 'A great struggle about what they call "Classica and Romantic". |
| Abstract | "Jane Austen and Lord Byron are often presented as opposites, but here they are together at last. In Regency England he was the first celebrity author while she was a parson's daughter writing anonymously. This book explores how their lives, interests, work and sense of humour often brought them within touching distance, and sets them side by side in the world of the Regency and Romantic period. Using some little-known sources and new research, it illustrates how they were distantly related by marriage; how they knew about each other even though they probably never met; the acquaintances they had in common and how their literary work often came close in subject-matter, approach, technique and tone. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, this book will inform and delight scholars and Austen and Byron fans alike, showing that these two great authors were closer than you might think, even in their own day"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-235) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Kenyon-Jones, Christine. Jane Austen and Lord Byron London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024 9781350381414 |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2023030696 |
| ISBN | 9781350381407 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1350381403 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781350381391 paperback |
| ISBN | 135038139X paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR4036 .K46 2024 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |