{"product_id":"the-byronic-hero-minnesota-archive-editions","title":"The Byronic Hero (Minnesota Archive Editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Byronic Hero was first published in 1962.This study of the origins and development of the Romantic hero through its apogee in the works of Byron critically examines the major Romantic heroes of comparative literature and places them in the wider perspective of history.Professor Thorslev devotes the first part of his discussion to the cultural origins and family relationships of a range of preRomantic and Romantic hero types, and to analyses of those aspects of the spirit of the times which each hero symbolizes. He shows that these forebears of the Byronic Hero  the Child of Nature roaming the forests of Wales or the Highlands of Scotland, the Gloomy Egoist celebrating death and worms and charnel houses, the Man of Feeling expiring from a surfeit of emotion, the Gothic VillainHero exuding mystery, violence, and tenderness  are largely English products of eighteenthcentury sentiment and Gothicism. The more distinctly Romantic types  the Hero of Sensibility feasting his soul and longing for its dissolution, the Noble Outlaw defying society, Faust the seeker, Cain the metaphysical rebel, the deathseeking Wandering Jew, Satan, and the fiery Prometheus  are traced from their first appearance in the German Sturm und Drang to their composite reincarnation in the works of Byron. As the culmination of this last heroic tradition in Western literature, the Byronic Hero is significantly related to the later cult of heroworship and to various philosophies of rebellion, from Nietzsche to Camus.An appendix contains a selective, annotated bibliography of secondary studies of each of the hero types discussed in the text. The book will be of particular interest to those studying or teaching English or comparative literature or the history of ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Thorslev Jr., Peter L. \/ paperback","offer_id":47842466332917,"sku":"DADAX0816669449","price":64.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/61gCBqESSxL.jpg?v=1773780389","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/the-byronic-hero-minnesota-archive-editions","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}