This dissertation considers representations of the Ottoman Empire in British writings (poetry, novels, travel writing) from c. 1789–1846. During this period of British imperial expansion, I argue that the Ottoman Empire provided British writers with a rich counterimage of empire…
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Romantic heroes are questers, according to Harold Bloom and Northrop Frye. Whether employing physical strength or relying on the power of the mind, the traditional Romantic hero invokes questing for some sense of self. Chapter 1 considers this hero-type, but is concerned with de…
This dissertation examines the ways in which the eighteenth and early nineteenth century British encounter with the Orient redefined literary representations of difference. The Orientalist renaissance which took place from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries wa…
For nineteenth-century English and American readers, modern Greece was largely the creation of Byron. The poet had formed the popular image of the country in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and his Eastern Tales, and then called attention to the Greek struggle for freedom with his de…
Throughout his career, Francesco Hayez (1791–1882) adopted northern Romantic source material and ideologies. Although he drew inspiration from various authors and poets, he was particularly influenced by Lord Byron. This is most evident in his use of nationalist and heroic theme…
“Empire of Signs” examines how later Romantic writers harnessed the rhetoric of imperial culture to stake their claims to literary prestige. In the Chinese porcelain, Egyptian antiquities, and Italian touristic ephemera that figure in their work, Charles Lamb, James Hogg, and Le…
The course of Byron study has, mainly, taken two paths. The first, the more heavily worn, is that of studies Byron's life. The second path is that of studies of Byron's works. Here, most of the critical attention has been divided primarily between what are considered to be Byron…