The Cambridge Companion to Byron

A wide-ranging introduction to Byron's life and works by a range of eminent Byron scholars.

Drummond Bone (Edited by)

9780521781466, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 November 2004

330 pages
23.6 x 16 x 2.6 cm, 0.61 kg

'One feels enthusiasm as well as information and interpretation in the Companion. Admirers of Byron's verse as well as newcomers will find that it repays close reading and reference.' Emerald

Byron's life and work have fascinated readers around the world for two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction between his art and his politics, beliefs and sexuality that has attracted so many modern critics and students. In three sections devoted to the historical, textual and literary contexts of Byron's life and times, these specially commissioned essays by a range of eminent Byron scholars provide a compelling picture of the diversity of Byron's writings. The essays cover topics such as Byron's interest in the East, his relationship to the publishing world, his attitudes to gender, his use of Shakespeare and eighteenth-century literature, and his acute fit in a post-modernist world. This Companion provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars, including a chronology and a guide to further reading.

Chronology
Introduction Drummond Bone
Part I. Historical Contexts: 1. Byron's life and his biographers Paul Douglass
2. Byron and the business of publishing Peter W. Graham
3. Byron's politics Malcolm Kelsall
4. Byron: gender and sexuality Andrew Elfenbein
Part II. Texts: 5. Heroism and history: Childe Harold I & 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. Childe Harold III and Manfred Alan Rawes
8. Byron and the theatre Alan Richardson
9. Childe Harold IV, Don Juan and Beppo Drummond Bone
10. The Vision of Judgment and the Visions of 'Author' Susan Wolfson
11. Byron's Prose Andrew Nicholson
Part III. Literary Contexts: 12. Byron's lyric poetry Jerome McGann
13. Byron and Shakespeare Anne Barton
14. Byron, postmodernism and intertextuality Jane Stabler
15. Byron's European reception Peter Cochran
16. Byron and the eighteenth century Bernard Beatty.

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