dc.contributor.author | Bernhard Jackson, EA | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-20T08:07:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-06-30 | |
dc.description.abstract | This essay suggests that Byron’s Manfred contains not an expression of Byron’s guilt about his incest with his half-sister Augusta Leigh, as previous critics have suggested, but rather considerable evidence of his lack of guilt. It argues that the play displays incest and torment, but in fact does not link the two, instead displaying Manfred’s love for Astarte as deeply felt without regrets. The essay then argues that one finds the same combination of deep love and lack of regret in Byron’s remarks about his relationship with his half-sister, as well as in the representations of incest in his other works. It suggests that this acceptance of incest links to Byron’s commitment to rational thinking and personal freedom, and it invites future criticism to explore this connection in more detail. | |
dc.identifier.citation | Romantic Circles Praxis series. Volume: On the 200th Anniversary of Lord Byron's Manfred: Commemorative Essays | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/28099 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | University of Colorado | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://romantic-circles.org/praxis/manfred/praxis.2019.manfred.bernhard-jackson.html | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Under indefinite embargo due to publisher policy | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2019 University of Colorado. © 2019 The author | |
dc.title | Love in the First Degree: Manfred, Byron, and Incest | en_GB |
dc.type | Book chapter | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is freely available from the University of Colorado via the link in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Note that the text of the manuscript varies considerably from the final published version | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1528-8129 | |