Manfredo

Disch's novel strikes me as deliberately unoriginal, in the sense that it cheerfully pastiches a number of Romantic and Victorian narratives: the heroine's voice and some of her predicament owes much to Jane Eyre; the inheritance trick at the novel's core borrows from Gothic and romance tropes; there's some debased Byronism going on indeed, the primary villain, who thinks he's Byron's illegitimate son, is named "Manfredo"; a character redeems herself at the end by heading off to Australia, as in Dickens' David Copperfield; and so forth.

Clara Reeve 2004

Disch's novel strikes me as deliberately unoriginal, in the sense that it cheerfully pastiches a number of Romantic and Victorian narratives: the heroine's voice and some of her predicament owes much to Jane Eyre; the inheritance trick at the novel's core borrows from Gothic and romance tropes; there's some debased Byronism going on indeed, the primary villain, who thinks he's Byron's illegitimate son, is named "Manfredo"; a character redeems herself at the end by heading off to Australia, as in Dickens' David Copperfield; and so forth.

The Little Professor: 2004

The voter turnout could be up to 15% lower than in the September election, said Manfredo Marroquin of the non-governmental organisation Mirador Electoral.

Guatemala likely to choose former general in presidential election 2011

Manfredo - western democracies do not practice apartheid or carry out collective punishments.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We thank you for this opportunity to salute our troops, our son Angelo Manfredo (ph).

CNN Transcript May 23, 2008 2008

In one highly publicized case of torture and intimidation, human rights attorney Rene Velasquez (no relation to Manfredo) was arrested on June 1, 1982, in front of his law office in Tegucigalpa and taken to a secret jail where he was kept for four days.

02/17/2005 2005

"It is disrespectful, in bad taste and provocative," Father Manfredo Leone from Rome's Santa Maria Liberatrice church said late today about the star's latest stage stunt.

Vatican unhappy as Madonna drops by Argent 2006

"We are very disappointed," said Manfredo di Camerana, the

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

Manfredo passes the wine to her guests, in sullen silence, and they drink to the prosperity of the house.

An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

Having bowed assent, and glad to get off so cheaply, Manfredo, a slave in bright livery, is directed to bring it in.

An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith