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| | The Byronic Hero Stein |
 | | The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television bridges nineteenth- and twentieth-century studies in pursuit of an ambitious, antisocial, arrogant, and aggressively individualistic mode of hero from his inception in Byron’s Manfred, Childe Harold, and Cain, through his incarnations as the protagonists of Westerns, action flicks, space odysseys, vampire novels, neo-Gothic comics, and sci-fi television. |
| | In her scrutiny of characters ranging from Manfred to the Sandman, from Melmoth to Lestat, from Heathcliff to Angel, Stein suggests that the Byronic hero serves its audience as an emblem of defiance and complacence. |
| | She also provides a detailed examination of one manifestation of the Byronic hero who embodies traits of both leader-hero and gloomy egotist: Q, the omnipotent alien from Star Trek: The Next Generation. |
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