The Byronic Hero | Lord Byron's Legacy

Let's talk about Byron, Shelley, Polidori, and—why not?—Satan as well! In this video, I try to explain what is a Byronic hero and how did the archetype originate.

Famous Byronic heroes in classic literature:

-Satan | John Milton's Paradise Lost
-Edward Rochester | Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
-Heathcliff | Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

Pop culture Byronic heroes:

-Dracula | Castlevania
-Kylo Ren |Star Wars
-Batman
-Hannibal Lecter

Stories/Books mentioned:

-Lord Byron: Manfred, Don Juan, The Corsair, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
-Mary Shelley: The Last Man
-John William Polidori: The Vampyre
-John Milton: Paradise Lost

Sources

-Macaulay Babington, Thomas. Byron’s Gloomy Egotistical Characters, https://victorianweb.org/authors/maca....

-Lovell, Ernest J. Byron and the Byronic Hero in the Novels of Mary Shelley, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20776035.

-Paolucci, Anne. Dante's Satan and Milton's "Byronic Hero,” https://www.jstor.org/stable/476984.

-Palfy, Cora. Antihero Worship: The Emergence of the "Byronic hero" archetype in the Nineteenth Century, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/....

-McGann, Jerome J. Lord Byron, The Major Works. Oxford World’s Classic.

-Tillotson, Simon. Polidori's The Vampyre, In Our Time: Culture, BBC Podcast, https://open.spotify.com/episode/2psr...

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