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Auteur(s) : Stott, Andrew McConnell (1969-....)
Titre(s) : The poet and the vampyre [Texte imprimé] : the curse of Byron and the birth of literature's greatest monsters / Andrew McConnell Stott
Édition : First Pegasus Books hardback edition
Publication : New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2014©2014
Description matérielle : xiv, 434 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits
; 24 cm
Comprend : St George's Day ; Directions for John ; The footing of an equal ; That odd-headed
girl ; Here is a man ; An empire's dust ; Young Tahitians ; A star in the halo
of the moon ; Fog of the Jura ; To die of joy ; The hero of Milan ; Household
gods ; The vampyre ; Sea Sodom ; Torn clouds before the hurricane.
Note(s) : Originally published : Edinburgh ; London : Canongate, 2013. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-415) and index
Love affairs, literary rivalries, and the supernatural collide in an inspired journey
to Lake Geneva, where Byron, the Shelleys, and John Polidori come together to create
literature's greatest monsters ; "In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was the greatest
poet of his generation and the most famous man in Britain, but his personal life was
about to erupt. Fleeing his celebrity, notoriety, and debts, he sought refuge in Europe,
taking his young doctor with him. As an inexperienced medic with literary aspirations
of his own, Doctor John Polidori could not believe his luck. That summer another literary
star also arrived in Geneva. With Percy Bysshe Shelley came his lover, Mary, and her
step-sister, Claire Clairmont. For the next three months, this party of young bohemians
shared their lives, charged with sexual and artistic tensions. It was a period of
extraordinary creativity: Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein, the gothic masterpiece
of Romantic fiction; Byron completed Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, his epic poem; and
Polidori would begin The Vampyre, the first great vampire novel. It was also a time
of remarkable drama and emotional turmoil. For Byron and the Shelleys, their stay
by the lake would serve to immortalize them in the annals of literary history. But
for Claire and Polidori, the Swiss sojourn would scar them forever"
Sujet(s) : Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Vampires -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1605986143 (hardback). - ISBN 9781605986142 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb442413159
Notice n° :
FRBNF44241315
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