Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works, Vol. 7

Byron, sixth Bar Byron George Gordon Noel; McGann, Jerome J.

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“…Apparently the handsome Chalandrutsanos, far from being in love with Byron, did not even have sex with him, though he accepted Byron’s admiration, money and patronage. In his poem Last Words on Greece Byron called his love for Chalandrutsanos as a ‘maddening fascination’ (Byron, 1993: 83); it seems to have been ‘fired rather than extinguished by the boy’s disdain’ (Crompton, 1985: 328). It was his ‘lot’, he wrote, ‘To strongly – wrongly – vainly – love thee still’ (Byron, 1993: 82).…”

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“…In his poem Last Words on Greece Byron called his love for Chalandrutsanos as a ‘maddening fascination’ (Byron, 1993: 83); it seems to have been ‘fired rather than extinguished by the boy’s disdain’ (Crompton, 1985: 328). It was his ‘lot’, he wrote, ‘To strongly – wrongly – vainly – love thee still’ (Byron, 1993: 82). If Byron experienced the disappointment of a sentimental sexual tourist on whom it dawns that he is loved for his money and privilege but not for himself, he would not be the last to do so.…”

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“…One was world-weariness; while in Greece, he wrote, ‘If thou regret’st thy youth, why live? / Seek out … / A soldier’s grave’ (Byron, 1993: 81). Thirst for glory and fame paid a part.…”

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“…Byron’s support for the Greek revolt was in line with their sympathies for earlier uprisings in 1820–1 in Spain, Portugal, the kingdom of Naples and Austrian-ruled Italy. ‘One common cause makes myriads of one breast’, Byron wrote: Greek ‘Slaves of the East, or Helots of the West’ (Byron, 1993: 9).…”

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Byron and Ottoman love: Orientalism, Europeanization and same-sex sexualities in the early nineteenth-century Levant

Drucker¹

2012

Journal of European Studies

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Byron has been seen as central to a Romantic vision of the Levant, the struggle for Greek independence and an idealization of Greek male love. Yet not much sustained attention has been given to Byron’s same-sex experience with Muslims or to the Ottoman culture of his beloved Greek boys. Byron grasped opportunities for same-sex erotic experience that the Ottoman Empire offered; yet by helping to establish a homogeneous Greek Christian state, he helped magnify the power of the Orthodox clergy that still acts in Greece as a brake on homoeroticism. In helping to Europeanize the Greeks, he helped destroy aspects of the Islamic world that deeply appealed to him. Byron’s Orientalism made him a bridge-builder between East and West; today we should recognize both the patriarchal despotism and the sexual and cultural wealth of the Levant he celebrated and helped destroy.

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Byron and Ottoman love: Orientalism, Europeanization and same-sex sexualities in the early nineteenth-century Levant

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2012

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“…This includes the third Canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which Byron wrote between May and September 1816 as he travelled to Switzerland; 1 Hobhouse's published work on Napoleon's downfall, based on his experiences in Paris in mid-1815; and the Shelleys' writings immediately following Waterloo and on their own excursion to Switzerland in 1816, particularly the History of a Six Weeks' Tour. These texts, as I suggest below, attempt to delineate a 'tradition of freedom': a shared trajectory for European countries which identifies both a common history and the prospect of future unity.…”

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Liberty and Independence: The Shelley–Byron Circle and the State(s) of Europe

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2009

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Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790–1830

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2002

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In Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790–1830, Mark Canuel examines the way that Romantic poets, novelists and political writers criticized the traditional grounding of British political unity in religious conformity. Canuel shows how a wide range of writers including Jeremy Bentham, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Lord Byron not only undermined the validity of religion in the British state, but also imagined a new, tolerant and more organized mode of social inclusion. To argue against the authority of religion, Canuel claims, was to argue for a thoroughly revised form of tolerant yet highly organized government, in other words, a mode of political authority that provided unprecedented levels of inclusion and protection. Canuel argues that these writers saw their works as political and literary commentaries on the extent and limits of religious toleration. His study throws light on political history as well as the literature of the Romantic period.

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Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works, Vol. 7

Cited by 69 publications

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Byron and Ottoman love: Orientalism, Europeanization and same-sex sexualities in the early nineteenth-century Levant

Byron and Ottoman love: Orientalism, Europeanization and same-sex sexualities in the early nineteenth-century Levant

Liberty and Independence: The Shelley–Byron Circle and the State(s) of Europe

Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790–1830

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