Byron in context
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Byron in context
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
George Gordon, the sixth Lord Byron (1788-1824), was one of the most celebrated poets of the Romantic period, as well as a peer, politician and global celebrity, famed not only for his verse, but for his controversial lifestyle and involvement in the Greek War of Independence. In thirty-seven concise, accessible essays, by leading international scholars, this volume explores the social and intertextual relationships that informed Byron's writing; the geopolitical contexts in which he travelled, lived and worked; the cultural and philosophical movements that influenced changing outlooks on religion, science, modern society and sexuality; the dramatic landscape of war, conflict and upheaval that shaped Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic Europe and Regency Britain; and the diverse cultures of reception that mark the ongoing Byron phenomenon as a living ecology in the twenty-first century. This volume illuminates how we might think of Byron in context, but also as a context in his own right.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Life and Works: 1. Early years Jonathan Gross
- 2. The years of fame Diego Saglia
- 3. Exile Jane Stabler
- 4. Texts and editions Tom Mole
- 5. Byron and his publishers Mary O'Connell
- 6. Piracies, fakes and forgeries Gary Dyer
- Part II. Political, Social and Intellectual Transformations: 7. Politics John Beckett
- 8. War Neil Ramsey
- 9. Greece's Byron Spiridoula Demetriou
- 10. Byron's Italy Timothy Webb
- 11. Orientalism Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud
- 12. Religion Christine Kenyon Jones
- 13. Natural philosophy Thomas H. Ford
- 14. Sexuality Richard C. Sha
- 15. Libertinism Adam Komisaruk
- 16. Fashion, self-fashioning and the body Laura J. George
- Part III. Literary Cultures: 17. Classicism and neoclassicism Bernard Beatty
- 18. Epic (and historiography) Carla Pomare
- 19. Romance Omar F. Miranda
- 20. Byron's lyric practice Anna Camilleri
- 21. Satire Mark Canuel
- 22. The Satanic School Mirka Horova
- 23. The Lake Poets Madeleine Callaghan
- 24. Byron's accidental muse: Robert Southey Susan J. Wolfson
- 25. 'Benign ceruleans of the second sex!': Byron and the Bluestockings Caroline Franklin
- 26. The Pisan Circle and the Cockney School Maria Schoina
- 27. Drama and theatre Rolf P. Lessenich
- 28. Autobiography Alan Rawes
- 29. 'Literatoor', literary theory and critical practice Clara Tuite
- 30. Periodical culture, the literary review and the mass media Andrew Franta
- Part IV. Reception and Afterlives: 31. Contemporary critical reception to 1824 William Christie
- 32. Byron, radicals and reformers Jason Goldsmith
- 33. European reception Peter Vassallo
- 34. Recollections, conversations and biographies Julian North
- 35. Posthumous reception and re-invention to 1900 Eric Eisner
- 36. Popular culture Lindsey Eckert
- 37. Byron now Ghislaine McDayter.
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