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    The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron. Both Byron's own persona as...
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    is an example of the superfluous man novel, noted for its compelling Byronic hero (or antihero) Pechorin and for the beautiful descriptions of the Caucasus...
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    BLESSED AND EVER-TO-BE-REMEMBERED HERO!!!" published in BENGAL HURKARU, Calcutta, 21 October 1824. The Byronic hero presents an idealised, but flawed...
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    poem was widely imitated. It contributed to the cult of the wandering Byronic hero who falls into melancholic reverie as he contemplates scenes of natural...
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    novel's titular protagonist Jane Eyre. He is regarded as an archetypal Byronic hero. Edward Rochester is the oft-absent master of Thornfield Hall, where...
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  • "knight-errant", particular to European medieval chivalric romance literature, and Byronic hero, especially in European Romanticism. Hubert Babinski, in a review of...
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    gods and heroes...who conquer by tapping every talent." Action hero Antihero Byronic hero Carnegie Hero Fund Culture hero Folk hero Germanic hero Helping...
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  • Heir of Redclyffe (1853) Anti-hero Byronic hero Gothic fiction List of fictional anti-heroes Romanticism Tragic flaw Epic hero Wilson, James D. (Winter 1972)...
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  • "Satanic" school and developed the "Byronic hero" (not to be confused with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Satanic Hero") who would, like Satan in Paradise...
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    Edmond Dantès (pronounced [ɛd.mɔ̃ dɑ̃.tɛs]) is a title character, Byronic hero and the protagonist of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 adventure novel The Count...
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