Uncovering yet more ways in which women writers responded to Byron’s work and persona, it ultimately asks us to rethink the figure of the Byronic Hero. “The book is an outstanding contribution to scholarship on Byron’s reception and impact, as well as more broadly on the interrelationship between Romanticism and Victorian realism …. Winner of the 2016 Elma Dangerfield Prize … the book takes on a subject that we thought we knew all about and discovers something fresh to say about it.” (Carmen Casaliggi, Byron Journal, Vol.

Elegantly written and impeccably researched, Wootton’s study will be valuable to any scholars, students, or general readers interested in both the Romantic and the Victorian age as well as in the Byron phenomenon more broadly, and in twenty-first century media and film studies.

“This is an informative monograph which prompts a re-thinking of Byron’s ambivalent legacies. Wilson, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. Studies of literary influence can sometimes feel forced, but that is not the case here.” (Cheryl A. … Throughout each section of the book, Wootton is strongly engaged with critics of Romantic and Victorian literature as well as film critics and reviewers who tracked the popularity of the various adaptations. “Wootton provides both substantive and nuanced analysis of the literary and film/television texts chosen for the book, and the absence of certain texts may be simply a matter of space. … Wootton shows how women novelists rejected the ‘vulgar Byronic personality’ while adopting his ‘narrative agility and robust ideas,’ as they experimented with genre and form.” (Jonathan Gross, European Romantic Review, Vol. She makes a glancing mention of Woolf’s Night and Day (1919) … for example, but does so with concision, thereby providing the reader with an overview of themes in nineteenth-century literature. “One of the hallmarks of this wide ranging and erudite book is the literary authority Wootton brings to the endeavor.

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