The Cambridge Companion to Byron
The Cambridge Companion to Byron
Second Edition
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. Encompassing his entire oeuvre, the volume both provides an authoritative guide for students, and points to emerging new areas of research, highlighting Byron's ongoing relevance in an increasingly complex world both within academia and beyond. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of his death, new chapters cover investigations of Byron's manuscripts, his relationships with nonhuman animals, his levity and addiction, and his Dramas and their reception.
- Provides authoritative, wide coverage in a single volume, offering guidance and insight of relevance to Byron's early and late works alike
- Includes up-to-date essays that engage proactively with recent advances in Byron studies and make readers aware of current issues in Byron criticism
- Features a range of contributors, giving a broad contemporary view of the field and ensuring that no single perspective or disciplinary approach dominates
Product details
November 2023Hardback
9781108844888
299 pages
235 × 160 × 25 mm
0.657kg
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Table 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.
