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Jousting for the Honour of Greece and "a certain Miss Phrosyne": Baron Byron and Gally Knight Clash over Costume, Correctness, and a Princess
Michael Franklin 
Modern Language Review, Volume: 103, Issue: 2, Pages: 330 - 349
Swansea University Author:
Michael Franklin
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DOI (Published version): 10.2307/20467776
Abstract
This article attempts to rescue Henry Gally Knight (1786-1846), architectural writer and antiquary, from the footnotes of literary history. Few Romantic writers of Oriental verse tales travelled to the East, and the work of this friend of Walter Scott and William Wilberforce, patron of Turner, and c...
| Published in: | Modern Language Review |
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| ISSN: | 0026-7937 |
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MLR
2008
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11431 |
| Abstract: |
This article attempts to rescue Henry Gally Knight (1786-1846), architectural writer and antiquary, from the footnotes of literary history. Few Romantic writers of Oriental verse tales travelled to the East, and the work of this friend of Walter Scott and William Wilberforce, patron of Turner, and contemporary of Byron's at Cambridge warrants reconsideration. The article compares redactions of the Kyra Phrosine story, footnoted in Byron's "The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale" and featured in Knight's "Phrosyne: A Grecian Tale," to show how this beautiful victim of Asiatic arbitrary power became central to the Greek fight for independence. |
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| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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2 |
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330 |
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349 |