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Deeply informed and appealingly written, this revised and updated second edition gives fresh life to the enthralling sexual, poetic and political contradictions that make Byron the first literary celebrity. An authoritative source for students, this companion also points to emerging new areas of research.
List of contents
1. Byron's life and his biographers Paul Douglass; 2. 'My pen is at the bottom of a page' Tom Mole; 3. Byron's politics Malcolm Kelsall; 4. Byron: gender and sexuality Andrew Elfenbein; 5. Heroism and history: Childe Harold I and II and the tales Philip W. Martin; 6. Byron and the Eastern Mediterranean: Childe Harold II and the 'polemic of Ottoman Greece' Nigel leask; 7. 1816-17: Childe Harold III and Manfred Alan Rawes; 8. Byron and the theatre Alan Richardson; 9. Byron's experiments in drama: 1820-1822 Mirka HorovaI; 10. Childe Harold IV, Don Juan and Beppo Drummond Bone; 11. Redeeming levity: Byron's Don Juan Gavin Hopps; 12. The Vision of Judgment and the visions of 'author' Susan J. Wolfson; 13. Byron's bear and other animals Anna Camilleri; 14. Byron's lyric poetry Jerome Mcgann; 15. Byron and the eighteenth century Bernard Beatty; 16. In Byron's Wake Clara Tuite; 17. Byron, postmodernism and intertextuality Jane Stabler; 18. 'Writing grows a habit': Authorship, addiction and the 'Gallanting' poet Ghislaine Mcdayter.
About the author
Drummond Bone is Chair of the National Library of Scotland. For many years editor of the Byron Journal, he became co-founding editor of the journal Romanticism. He is the author of Byron (2000) for the Writers and their Work series and currently serves as Vice-President of the Byron Society. Recently Master of Balliol College, Oxford, he is a frequent guest at international Byron conferences.
Summary
Deeply informed and appealingly written, this revised and updated second edition gives fresh life to the enthralling sexual, poetic and political contradictions that make Byron the first literary celebrity. An authoritative source for students, this companion also points to emerging new areas of research.
Foreword
Expanded and diversified, this companion makes vivid Byron's ongoing relevance to myriad issues of politics, literature and life today.
