Sacrilegious heroics: Biblical and Byronic archetypes of the vengeful feminine
That Byron possessed an abiding interest in the active individuality of women is manifest in his poetry. From the opening canto of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage to the closing cantos of Don Juan, examples of female independence and autonomy abound. Next to the heroines of Homer, Virgil, and Shakespeare...
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Liverpool University Press
2015
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