Byron, Napoleon, J.C. Hobhouse and the hundred days /

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Author / Creator:Cochran, Peter.
Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11908446
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ISBN:1443882380
9781443882385
1443877425
9781443877428
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 28, 2015).
Summary:Napoleon was, after his defeat at Leipzig, "granted" the island of Elba to rule. He soon found this unsatisfactory, and, early in 1815, left for the south of France, and marched on Paris to some acclamation. He was, all too quickly, defeated at Waterloo. Observing all this was Byron's friend J.C. Hobhouse, an ardent Bonapartist. Byron, who posed as one, never answered his letters from the thick of things in Paris.This book is structured in four layers, and begins with an essay about Byron and Napoleon, which is then followed by Byron's poems about Napoleon and Hobhouse's diary. Hobhouse's lett.

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