(H/B) BYRON'S WAR

Παρουσίαση

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, Byron's War 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Byron's War draws extensively on Greek historical sources and other unpublished documents to tell an individual story that also offers a new understanding of the significance that Greece had for Byron, and of Byron's contribution to the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.

Περιεχόμενα

Prologue
Part I. The Rebel Imagination (1809-1816):
1. Land of lost gods...
2. ...and modern monsters
Part II. The Road to Revolution (1816-1823):
3. Reluctant Radical
4. 'Prophet of a noble contest'
5. Death by water, transfiguration by fire
6. The deformed transformed
Part III. Greece: 'Tis the Cause Makes All' (July-December 1823):
7. Preparations for battle
8. Wavering
9. The new statesman
Part IV. Missolonghi: The Hundred Days (January-April 1824):
10. 'Political economy'
11. Confronting the warlords
12. Pyrrhic victory
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index.