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T1 ‘A Drop of Ink May Make a Million Think’; Two Drops of Ink Made a Woman Sink: The Byronic Hero and Vampirism in Glenarvon. An Insight into the Byron-Lamb Affair
A1 Ivascu, Rebeca Cristina
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Caroline Lamb
K1 Lord Byron
K1 Byronic hero
K1 Glenarvon
K1 The Vampyre
K1 Manfred
K1 Héroe byroniano
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB This paper employs a textual and comparative approach to Lady Caroline Lamb's novel Glenarvon (1816.) The main character, who shares the work's name, embodies several characteristics of the Byronic hero as we see it in Lord Byron's works, in this case Manfred, but also some specific to symbolic vampirism as observed in John Polidori's The Vampyre and Byron’s The Giaour. Moreover, since this novel is essentially based on Lamb and Byron's non-fictional relationship, this paper establishes a parallelism between the novel's characters and their real counterparts, as well as the events, grounded on the respective biographies and further documentation endorsing said relationship. The final results of this research show first, a clear resemblance of the protagonists of these works personality-wise with Byron himself, and second, this research also evidences the social and professional repercussions that the publication of Glenarvon had for both public figures, Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron.
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/79272
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/79272
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 16-nov-2025