Byronic hero

Type of antihero often characterized by isolation and contemplation
Thing stock_character Q1018644
Byronic hero
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Byronic hero

Summary

Byronic hero is a stock character[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of stock_character entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,620 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Byronic hero's image is recorded as Byronharlow.jpg[3].
  • Byronic hero's instance of is recorded as stock character[4].
  • Lord Byron is named after Byronic hero[5].
  • Byronic hero's subclass of is recorded as Romantic hero[6].
  • Byronic hero's subclass of is recorded as tragic hero[7].
  • Byronic hero's subclass of is recorded as literary character[8].
  • Byronic hero's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[9].
  • Byronic hero's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02kd04[10].
  • Byronic hero's described at URL is recorded as https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/dela012alge01_01/dela012alge01_01_00079.php[11].
  • Byronic hero's described at URL is recorded as http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kruger/dads-cads.html[12].
  • Byronic hero's described by source is recorded as Q96870923[13].
  • Byronic hero's present in work is recorded as Childe Harold's Pilgrimage[14].
  • Byronic hero's present in work is recorded as Manfred[15].
  • Byronic hero's has characteristic is recorded as arrogance[16].
  • Byronic hero's has characteristic is recorded as loneliness[17].
  • Byronic hero's has characteristic is recorded as misanthropy[18].
  • Byronic hero's has characteristic is recorded as cynicism[19].
  • Byronic hero's has characteristic is recorded as pride[20].
  • Byronic hero's has characteristic is recorded as melancholia[21].
  • Byronic hero's has characteristic is recorded as erudition[22].
  • Byronic hero's has characteristic is recorded as self-destructive behaviour[23].
  • Byronic hero's Quora topic ID is recorded as Byronic-Hero[24].
  • Byronic hero's first appearance is recorded as Childe Harold's Pilgrimage[25].
  • Byronic hero's first appearance is recorded as Faust, Part One[26].
  • Byronic hero's first appearance is recorded as Paradise Lost[27].

Why It Matters

Byronic hero ranks in the top 1% of stock_character entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,620 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . dbnl.org. dbnl.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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