Manfred: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition
The quintessential depiction of the Byronic hero is accompanied in this edition by a substantial selection of contextual materials, including Byron’s original draft of the play’s conclusion; influences on the poem, such as Paradise Lost, Goethe’s Faust, and Vathek; further examples of the Byronic hero from the poet’s other writings; a selection of contemporary reviews; and an excerpt from Man-Fred, a dramatic parody in which the protagonist is reimagined as a chimney-sweep.

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Manfred: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition
The quintessential depiction of the Byronic hero is accompanied in this edition by a substantial selection of contextual materials, including Byron’s original draft of the play’s conclusion; influences on the poem, such as Paradise Lost, Goethe’s Faust, and Vathek; further examples of the Byronic hero from the poet’s other writings; a selection of contemporary reviews; and an excerpt from Man-Fred, a dramatic parody in which the protagonist is reimagined as a chimney-sweep.

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Manfred: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

Manfred: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

Manfred: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

Manfred: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

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The quintessential depiction of the Byronic hero is accompanied in this edition by a substantial selection of contextual materials, including Byron’s original draft of the play’s conclusion; influences on the poem, such as Paradise Lost, Goethe’s Faust, and Vathek; further examples of the Byronic hero from the poet’s other writings; a selection of contemporary reviews; and an excerpt from Man-Fred, a dramatic parody in which the protagonist is reimagined as a chimney-sweep.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781554813681
Publisher: Broadview Press
Publication date: 04/07/2017
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Our Editorial Team:

Joseph Black, University of Massachusetts
Leonard Conolly, Trent University
Kate Flint, University of Southern California
Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta
Roy Liuzza, University of Tennessee
Jerome McGann, University of Virginia
Anne Prescott, Barnard College
Barry Qualls, Rutgers University
Claire Waters, University of Virginia

Table of Contents

Introduction

Manfred, A Dramatic Poem

In Context

    The Manuscript Version of Manfred, Act 3
    Literary Contexts
    • from John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667)
      Gothic Precursors of the Byronic Hero
        from Horace Walpole, The Mysterious Mother (1768)
        from William Beckford, Vathek (1786)
        from Anne Radcliffe, The Italian (1797)
      from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One (1808)
      from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: Part One (1808)
      from Caroline Lamb, Glenarvon (1817)
      from Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818)
      from Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (1820)
    Byron’s Life and Writing
      from The Corsair: A Tale (1814)
      from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Third (1816)
      “Prometheus” (1816)
      Selected Letters to Augusta Leigh
      Portraits: Byron in the 1810s
    Responses to Manfred
    • Contemporary Reviews
      • from The British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review (July 1817)
        from William Roberts, The British Review, and London Critical Journal (August 1817)
        from Francis Jeffrey, The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal (August 1817)
        from The Gentleman’s Magazine (July 1817)
        from The Lady’s Monthly Museum (August 1817)
        from The Literary Gazette (June 1817)
        from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Über Kunst und Altertum (1820, written 1817)
    Manfred on Stage
      from The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c. (November 1834)
      from Gilbert Abbot à Beckett, Man-Fred (1834)
      Paintings of Manfred
      from Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody (1883–91)
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