Romanticism and Modern Literature 2019
 

 

Byronic

Belonging to or derived from Lord Byron ( 1788 - 1824 ) or his works. The Byronic hero is a character-type found in his celebrated narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ( 1812 - 18 ), his verse drama Manfred (1817), and other works; he is a boldly defiant but bitterly self-tormenting outcastproudly contemptuous of social norms but suffering for some unnamed sin. Emily Brontë's Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1847) is a later example.

 

Byronic Hero

 

A term for the dark, brooding, rebellious and defiant hero associated
both with the character of George Gordon, Lord Byron and the heroes
of many of his poems and plays. In the l9th century the Byronic hero became a major feature of ROMANTICISM, its internally conflicted, alienated, and demonic strain at once attractive and dangerousThe Byronic hero owed something to the villain of the GOTHIC NOVEL and the suggestion of diabolism related to the FAUSTIAN THEME. His literary descendants
include Edward Rochester in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and the
figure of Jeffrey Aspern in Henry James’s The Aspern Papers (1888).

 

 

 

  Related Binaries

Childe Harold_The_Byronic_Hero_Types_and_Proto.pdf  a book chapter on Childe Harold as a Byronic Hero    

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Related Keyword :
 

 

 
 
© 2014 ARMYTAGE.NET ALL RIGHTS RESERVED