The Cambridge Companion to Byron
Second Edition

Expanded and diversified, this companion makes vivid Byron's ongoing relevance to myriad issues of politics, literature and life today.

Drummond Bone (Edited by)

9781108948968, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 November 2023

360 pages
23 x 15 x 2 cm, 0.513 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]