Gothic Studies, November 1st, 2005
The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television by Atara Stein (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004), ISBN 0-80932-586-1, 260 pp., $45.00. Atara Stein intends her book for 'both academic and nonacademic readers who study Byron or who have a fascination with the types of dark heroes examined here' (7). And, while both audiences may find points of interest along this journey of popular Byronic incarnations, the former group is likely to have serious questions about Stein's historical mapping. She claims, 'I advocate a type of informed fandom that includes an awareness of the ...
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