Paul Douglass

Standard Name: Douglass, Paul
Used Form: Malcolm Paul Douglass, Jr

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Cultural formation Lady Caroline Lamb
As an adult, she became increasingly promiscuous. Her conduct in her affair with Byron (who was at first dazzled by and obsessed with her, later implacably hostile in principle, though capable of softening when he...
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Caroline Lamb
In this and her final novel she followed the advice of Ugo Foscolo , though she found it went against her grain, to choose a simple plot and build it around a single character.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Literary responses Lady Caroline Lamb
Reviewers were anything but indifferent. The New Monthly Magazine thought the title character ably and vigorously drawn and the book therefore a moral one: a fearful beacon to warn the young and inexperienced. But the...
Literary responses Lady Caroline Lamb
This brilliant poem was more or less dismissed by the Monthly Review as calculated to please an eccentric taste for extravagance, and doggerel versification. Biographer Paul Douglass notes that it has still received little attention...
Literary responses Lady Caroline Lamb
A recent book, Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend by James Soderholm , 1996, suggests the possibility of Byron criticism that would take LCL seriously. Although Soderholm sees Lamb as essentially an ersatz version of...
Material Conditions of Writing Lady Caroline Lamb
According to her own account, LCL wrote her notorious novel Glenarvon and sent it to press within one month, while articles of separation were being drawn up by her husband following her act of violence...
Textual Features Lady Caroline Lamb
Using as a foundation her affair with Byron (not its actual events but its emotional impact), LCL tells a melodramatic, gothic tale in rhapsodic, overblown style. Critic Paul Douglass thinks the fourteen lyrics included in...
Textual Production Lady Caroline Lamb
Critic Paul Douglass says this manuscript is missing from among the Byron papers in the Bodleian Library .
Douglass, Paul. “Playing Byron: Lady Caroline Lamb’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Glenarvon</span> and the Music of Isaac Nathan”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
8
, pp. 1-24.
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Textual Production Lady Caroline Lamb
Nathan included LCL 's Lines to Harriet Wilson in the final pages of his Fugitive Pieces, 1829, although the family of Lady Caroline's husband had paid to prevent their printing. (Nathan then compared LCL
Textual Production Lady Caroline Lamb
A selection of LCL 's letters has been edited with commentary by Paul Douglass as The Whole Disgraceful Truth, 2006. This edition leaves un-retouched the shaky spelling and scanty punctuation which well reflect her...

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Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Douglass, Paul. “Playing Byron: Lady Caroline Lamb’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Glenarvon</span> and the Music of Isaac Nathan”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
8
, pp. 1-24.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb. Editor Douglass, Paul, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.