Byron and Romanticism
Byron and Romanticism
This collection of essays represents twenty-five years of work by a leading critic of Romanticism in general and Byron in particular. It demonstrates McGann's evolution as a scholar, editor, critic, theorist, and historian, and his engagement with the main schools of literary criticism since the advent of structuralism in the 1960s. Many of these essays have previously been available only in specialist scholarly journals. Now for the first time McGann's important and influential work on Byron can be appreciated by new generations of students and scholars.
- Collected essays of the world's leading Byron scholar available in one volume for the first time
- Important insights into Byron's work, and the ways in which this has been perceived by scholars, critics and theorists over the past thirty years
- Introduction and concluding dialogue bringing McGann's own career and Byron scholarship into new focus
Reviews & endorsements
"...represents a quarter-century of important scholarly work on the subtle ironies of Byron's poetry and of the Byzantine connections between that poetry and Byron's complicated life...a smart book." Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Fascinating and complex." European Romantic Reviews
"A smart book...a stride in the right direction toward a reform that the serious study of literature urgently needs..." Richmond Times-Dispatch
Product details
September 2002Paperback
9780521007221
326 pages
228 × 152 × 16 mm
0.46kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- General analytical and historical introduction
- Part I:
- 1. Milton and Byron
- 2. Byron and Wordsworth
- 3. Byron, mobility, and the poetics of historical ventriloquism
- 4. 'My brain is feminine': Byron and the poetry of deception
- 5. What difference do the circumstances of publication make to the interpretation of a literary work?
- 6. Byron and the anonymous lyric
- 7. Byron and 'the truth in masquerade'
- 8. Private poetry, public deception
- 9. Hero with a thousand faces: the rhetoric of Byronism
- 10. Byron and the lyric of sensibility
- Part II:
- 11. A point of reference
- 12. History, herstory, theirstory, ourstory
- 13. Literature, meaning, and the discontinuity of fact
- 14. Rethinking romanticism
- 15. An interview with Jerome McGann
- 16. Poetry, 1780–1832
- 17. Byron and romanticism, a dialogue (Jerome McGann and the editor, James Soderholm).
