Book contents
- Byron in Context
- Byron in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Political, Social and Intellectual Transformations
- Chapter 7 Politics
- Chapter 8 War
- Chapter 9 Greece’s Byron
- Chapter 10 Byron’s Italy
- Chapter 11 Orientalism
- Chapter 12 Religion
- Chapter 13 Natural Philosophy
- Chapter 14 Sexuality
- Chapter 15 Libertinism
- Chapter 16 Fashion, Self-Fashioning and the Body
- Part III Literary Cultures
- Part IV Reception and Afterlives
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 7 - Politics
from Part II - Political, Social and Intellectual Transformations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 October 2019
- Byron in Context
- Byron in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Political, Social and Intellectual Transformations
- Chapter 7 Politics
- Chapter 8 War
- Chapter 9 Greece’s Byron
- Chapter 10 Byron’s Italy
- Chapter 11 Orientalism
- Chapter 12 Religion
- Chapter 13 Natural Philosophy
- Chapter 14 Sexuality
- Chapter 15 Libertinism
- Chapter 16 Fashion, Self-Fashioning and the Body
- Part III Literary Cultures
- Part IV Reception and Afterlives
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Byron’s political interests and views can conveniently be divided between his active political career in the House of Lords (1809–16) and his years of self-imposed exile in Italy and Greece, associated most notably with the liberal-nationalist causes of the Carbonari and Greece.
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- Byron in Context , pp. 63 - 69Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019