Byron and Romanticism

This 2002 collection of essays represents twenty-five years of McGann's work on Romanticism and Byron Studies.

Jerome McGann (Author), James Soderholm (Edited by)

9780521809580, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 August 2002

328 pages
23.7 x 15.9 x 2.6 cm, 0.623 kg

'This eclectic, thought-provoking volume is an important addition to the Cambridge series of Studies in Romanticism.' The Byron Journal

This 2002 collection of essays represents twenty-five years of work by one of the most important critics of Romanticism and Byron studies, Jerome McGann. The collection demonstrates McGann's evolution as a scholar, editor, critic, theorist, and historian. His 'General Analytic and Historical Introduction' to the collection presents a meditation on the history of his own research on Byron, in particular how scholarly editing interacted with the theoretical innovations in literary criticism over the last quarter of the twentieth century. McGann's receptiveness to dialogic forms of criticism is also illustrated in this collection, which contains an interview and concludes with a dialogue between McGann and the editor. Many of these essays have previously been available only in specialist scholarly journals. Now McGann's influential work on Byron can be appreciated more widely by new generations of students and scholars.

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).

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]