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Illuminates the multiple contexts in which the life, works and reception of Lord Byron (1788-1824) are understood.
List 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 Pomarè; 19. Romance Omar F. Miranda; 20. Byron's lyric practice Anna Camilleri; 21. Satire Mark Canuel; 22. The Satanic School Mirka Horová; 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.
Summary
This book guides the reader through the intersecting fields of biography, literary culture and reception, and the intellectual and cultural movements informing the history and politics of the Romantic period and in turn the life and works of Lord Byron (1788–1824).
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'Ultimately, though, Callaghan has hit upon an interesting point of convergence between Byron and Shelley with her discussion of the poet-hero. She is a great reader of poetry, and I learned a lot from her analyses of specific stanzas and lines in both Byron's and Shelley's works.' Alexander Grammatikos, European Romantic Review
