Byronism

Byronism, he nevertheless arranges the raw materials of the story in such a way that the reader can observe how intimately the reflexivity at the heart of Byronism is bound up with a melancholic self-enchantment that looks more and more like the religious orthodoxy against which it supposedly sets itself.

Byron and Romantic Occidentalism 2008

It contains wit, character, passion, plot, conversations full of spirit and insight, letters sparkling with unstrained humanity; and if the death of the heroine be somewhat frigid and artificial, the last days of the hero strike the only note of what we now call Byronism, between the Elizabethans and

Memories and Portraits 2005

It is perhaps to the neglect of physical exercise that we find amongst students so frequent a tendency toward discontent, unhappiness, inaction, and reverie -- displaying itself in contempt for real life and disgust at the beaten tracks of men -- a tendency which in England has been called Byronism, and in Germany Wertherism.

How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon

England has been called Byronism, and in Germany Wertherism.

Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858

This occlusion at the very heart of things is the engine that produces the unanalyzable, unspeakable, enchanted thing called "Byronism" itself.

Byron and Romantic Occidentalism 2008

Occidentalism: namely, "Byronism" itself, in all its powerfully attractive melancholy.

Byron and Romantic Occidentalism 2008

Or perhaps this is a more populist instantiation of the aristocratic agency you accord to Byron in his co-optation of "Byronism" in Lord Byron’s Strength?

Site Three: Use, Pedagogy, and Addiction. 2002

Byronism, its nameless spell, its paradox — in short, as the condition of possibility for its secularism.

Byron and Romantic Occidentalism 2008

Byronism, the paradox that solicits close reading, is not the exquisitely balanced tension that Brooks loved to find in poetry, but rather a deep asymmetry between killing a woman freely (that is, for love) and killing her because she is property (that is, for tradition).

Byron and Romantic Occidentalism 2008

Both romance in general and Byronism in particular enable a temporary escape from drudgery and personal failure.

The Little Professor: 2007