508 Byron (with David Ellis) | My Last Book with Ariel Lawhon, Susan Meissner, and Kristina McMorris
The History of Literature
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The Rise and Fall of Don Jewell
Heathcliff introduced into English and European culture a new kind of hero based on his own character. Added to that, he is assumed to be very attractive, good-looking, as indeed in many ways Byron was. He's sort of the first example of what we know so well of celebrity culture. But yes, and then he got embroiled in terrible scandal of one kind or another.
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