A01=Carla Pomare
Amelot De La Houssaye
Author_Carla Pomare
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Cecilia Metella
cheeke
childe
Childe Harold IV
Deformed Transformed
engagement
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faliero
Gaetano Donizetti
harold
historical authenticity
histories
historiographical discourse in literature
ideology in history writing
imperfect
literary epistemology
marino
Marino Faliero
paratextual analysis
Paratextual Apparatuses
Rail Roads
Regimen Mixtum
Romantic historiography
Simonde De Sismondi
stephen
Venetian drama studies
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138254626
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In her study of the relationship between Byron’s lifelong interest in historical matters and the development of history as a discipline, Carla Pomarè focuses on drama (the Venetian plays, The Deformed Transformed), verse narrative (The Siege of Corinth, Mazeppa) and dramatic monologue (The Prophecy of Dante), calling attention to their interaction with historiographical and pseudo-historiographical texts ranging from monographs to dictionaries, collections of apophthegms, autobiographies and prophecies. This variety of discourses, Pomarè suggests, not only served as a source of the historical information Byron cherished, providing the subject matter for countless episodes in his works, but also and primarily supplied him with epistemological models. From them, Byron drew such trademark textual practices as his massive use of notes and paratexts, which satisfied his ingrained need for ’authenticity’ - a sentiment expressed in his oft-quoted, ’I hate things all fiction’. As Pomarè argues, Byron’s meticulous tracing of the process that links events, documents and historical representations ultimately answers his desire to retrieve what might be lost during the transmission of historical knowledge. Thus does he betray his preoccupation with the ideological uses of history writing, projecting his own discourses of history into the present of their composition.
Carla Pomarè is Associate Professor of English Literature at Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy.
