By David Roessel
Sleek Greece, built through the early nineteenth-century beliefs and concepts linked to Byron, has been "haunted, holy floor" in English and American literature for nearly centuries. In Byron's Shadow analyzes how authors hire rules approximately romantic nationalism, gender politics, shifts in cultural structures, and literary experimentation to create adaptations of "Greece" to fit altering eras.
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