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The Byronic hero is an idealized, but flawed, character exemplified in the life and writings of Lord Byron, characterized by his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb as being "mad, bad and dangerous to know".[1] The Byronic hero first appears in Byron's semi-autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-18). The Byronic hero has the following characteristics: After Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the Byronic hero made an appearance in many of Byron's other works, including his series of poems on Oriental themes: The Giaour (1813), The Corsair (1814) and Lara (1814); and his closet play Manfred (1817).

Byron's influence was manifested by many authors and artists of the Romantic movement and by writers of Gothic fiction during the 19th century. The Byronic hero provides the title character of Glenarvon (1816), by Byron's erstwhile lover Lady Caroline Lamb, and The Vampyre (1819) by Polidori. Heathcliff from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) and Rochester from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) are other examples.

Scholars have also drawn parallels between the Byronic Hero and the solipsistic heroes of Russian literature. In particular, Alexander Pushkin's famed character, Eugene Onegin echoes many of the attributes seen in "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," particularly, Onegin's solitary brooding and disrespect for traditional privilege. The first stages of Pushkin's poetic novel "Onegin" appeared twelve years after Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage', and Byron was of obvious influence (Vladimir Nabokov argued in his "Commentary to Eugene Onegin" that Pushkin had read Byron during his years in exile just prior to composing "Onegin"). The same character themes continued to influence Russian literature, particularly after Mikhail Lermontov invigorated the Byronic Hero through the character Pechorin in his 1839 novel A Hero of Our Time.

The Byronic hero is also featured in many different contemporary novels, and it is clear that Lord Byron's work continues to influence modern literature as the precursor of a commonly encountered type of anti-hero. The lead character, Stephen Dedalus of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is one of the more notorious recent heroes of this genre.

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fictional character is any person, persona, identity, or entity whose existence originates from a work of fiction. The process of creating and developing characters in a work of fiction is called characterization.
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Lord Byron

Born: 22 January 1788(1788--)
London, England
Died: 19 March 1824 (aged 36)
Messolonghi, Greece
Occupation: Poet, revolutionary


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The Lady Caroline Lamb (13 November 1785–26 January 1828) was a novelist and British aristocrat, the only daughter of the 3rd Earl of Bessborough and Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, with whom George IV fell in love.
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autobiographical novel is a novel based on the life of the author. The literary technique is distinguished from an autobiography or memoir by the stipulation of being fiction.
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem written by the British poet George Gordon, Lord Byron when at Kinsham. It was published between 1812 and 1818.
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Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric condition defined as recurrent episodes of significant disturbance in mood. These disturbances can occur on a spectrum that ranges from debilitating depression to unbridled mania.
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A mood disorder is a condition whereby the prevailing emotional mood is distorted or inappropriate to the circumstances.

The two major types of mood disorders are depression (or unipolar depression) and bipolar disorder.
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Integrity is the basing of one's actions on an internally consistent framework of principles. Depth of principles and adherence of each level to the next are key determining factors.
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Dissocial personality disorder
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ICD-10 F60.2
ICD-9 301.7

Antisocial personality disorder (APD) is a psychiatric condition characterized by an individual's common disregard for social rules, norms, and
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An Outcast is a person who is stigmatized or otherwise denied the benefits of a culture, usually for being perceived as being outside the social norms of that culture.

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outlaw is a person living the lifestyle of outlawry, meaning literally "outside the law". In the common law of England, a judgment declaring someone an outlaw was one of the harshest penalties in the legal system, since the outlaw could not use the legal system to protect
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Sexual identity is a term that, like sex, has two distinctively different meanings. One describes an identity roughly based on sexual orientation, the other an identity based on sexual characteristics, a concept related to, but different from, gender identity.
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Egalitarianism (derived from the French word égal, meaning equal or level) is a political doctrine that holds that all people should be treated as equals from birth. Generally it applies to being held equal under the law, the church, and society at large.
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Cynicism (Greek: Kυνισμός) was originally the philosophy of a group of ancient Greeks called the Cynics, founded by Antisthenes.
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Arrogance or arrogant may refer to:
  • Arrogance (band)
  • The Arrogants
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Self-hatred, self-loathing, also sometimes autophobia refers to an extreme dislike of oneself, or being angry at oneself. The term is also used to designate a dislike or hatred of a group to which one belongs.
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The Giaour

Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha
Painted by Eugène Delacroix (1827)
Author Lord Byron
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Romance/Epic poetry
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The Corsair was a semi-autobiographical tale about a pirate written by Lord Byron in 1814, which was extremely popular and influential in its day, selling ten thousand copies on its first day of sale. [1]

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Lara may refer to:

Places:
  • Lara State, a Venezuelan state.''
  • Lara, Victoria, a township near Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
  • Lara, Antalya, is a district of Antalya city in Turkey.
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A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group.

While all plays can be read as literature without being performed, closet dramas are designed especially for reading and do not
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Manfred is a dramatic poem written in 1816–1817 by Lord Byron. It contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. It is a typical example of a Romantic closet drama.
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Romanticism is an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated around the middle of the 18th century in Western Europe, during the Industrial Revolution. It was partly a revolt against aristocratic, social, and political norms of the Enlightenment period and a
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The 19th Century (also written XIX century) lasted from 1801 through 1900 in the Gregorian calendar. It is often referred to as the "1800s.
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The Lady Caroline Lamb (13 November 1785–26 January 1828) was a novelist and British aristocrat, the only daughter of the 3rd Earl of Bessborough and Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, with whom George IV fell in love.
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"The Vampyre"
Author John William Polidori
Country England
Language English
Genre(s) Horror short story
Publication type Magazine
Publisher New Monthly magazine and universal register; London: H. Colburn, 1814-1820. Vol. 1, No. 63.
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John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was an Italian English physician and writer, known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction.
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Emily Jane Brontë

Portrait by her brother
Born: July 30 1818(1818--)
Thornton, Yorkshire, England
Died: November 19 1848 (aged 30)
Haworth, Yorkshire, England
Occupation: Novelist, Poet
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Wuthering Heights

Title page of the first edition
Author Emily Brontë
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Thomas Cautley Newby
Publication date 1847
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Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë by George Richmond, 1850
Pseudonym: Currer Bell
Born: March 21 1816(1816--)
Thornton, Yorkshire, England
Died: March 31 1855 (aged 40)
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