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22 Byron and the Novel
Get accessPeter W. Graham is Professor Emeritus of English at Virginia Tech. Among his publications on British literature and culture are Byron’s Bulldog: The Letters of John Cam Hobhouse to Lord Byron (1984), Don Juan and Regency England (1990), Jane Austen & Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists (2008), and Articulating the Elephant Man (1992).
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Published:22 October 2024
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This chapter centres on how Byron valued and responded to the novel, a literary form that in his time was increasingly popular but sometimes deprecated. The focus is mainly on the personal significance of certain novels to Byron, how those novels may have influenced him, and his appraisal of contemporary fiction in letters and elsewhere. It establishes that Byron’s own relationship to fiction the novel was ambivalent and conflicted. There is also some attention paid to how Byron’s own works might be read as novels, to fictive representations of Byron in novels by his contemporaries, and to how his poetry figures in or influences novels written in his own time or shortly thereafter. The chapter concludes with a consideration of why Byron, who possessed so many of the literary gifts of a novelist, never completed a novel.
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