Research Catalog

Title

Byron in context / edited by Clara Tuite.

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

Tuite, Clara, 1964-

Description

xxx, 343 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Literature in context

Uniform Title

Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)

Subjects

• Poetry > Influence
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 Theater / Rolf P. Lessenich -- 28.Autobiography / Alan Rawes -- 29."Literatoor" and Literary Theory / Clara Tuite -- 30.Periodical Culture, the Literary Review and the Mass Media / Andrew Franta -- pt. 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 Reinvention to 1900 / Eric Eisner -- 36.Popular Culture / Lindsey Eckert -- 37.Byron Now / Ghislaine McDayter.

Call Number

JFE 20-4846

ISBN

• 1107181461
• 9781107181465

OCLC

1135188114

Title

Byron in context / edited by Clara Tuite.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Literature in context

Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index.

Added Author

Tuite, Clara, 1964- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4846