LADY CAROLINE LAMB. [ SIGNED]

DOUGLAS Paul.

ISBN 10: 1403966052 / ISBN 13: 9781403966056

Published by Palgrave / Macmillan,, New York & Hampshire Uk, 2004

About this Item

8vo. pp 354. Signed presentation copy on the title page by the author:" for Donna - another ' woman of wild originality! - Paul Douglas." Fine in fine dust wrapper. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.

Seller Inventory # 62016

Bibliographic Details

• Title: LADY CAROLINE LAMB. [ SIGNED]
• Publisher: Palgrave / Macmillan,, New York & Hampshire Uk
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403966052
• ISBN 13: 9781403966056
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Lady Caroline Lamb, among Lord Byron's many lovers, stands out--vilified, portrayed as a self-destructive nymphomaniac--her true story has never been told. Now, Paul Douglass provides the first unbiased treatment of a woman whose passions and independence were incompatible with the age in which she lived. Taking into account a traumatic childhood, Douglass explores Lamb's so-called "erotomania" and tendency towards drug abuse and madness--problems she and Byron had in common. In this portrait, she emerges as a person who sacrificed much for the welfare of a sick child, and became an artist in her own right. Douglass illuminates her novels and poetry, her literary friendships, and the lifelong support of her husband and her publisher, John Murray.

About the Author

Paul Douglass is Professor of English and American Literature at San Jose State University, where for six years he chaired the department. He is the author of Bergson, Eliot, and American Literature (1986), and the editor (with Frederick Burwick) of The Crisis in Modernism (1992) and A Selection of Hebrew Melodies, Ancient and Modern, by Isaac Nathan and Lord Byron, a facsimile edition (1988). His essays and reviews have appeared in Keats-Shelley Journal, European Romantic Review, The Byron Journal, and Newstead Abbey Byron Society Review.