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The Cambridge companion to Byron / edited by Drummond Bone.
Van Pelt Library PR4381 .C3423 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge companions to literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
- Poets, English--Biography--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Poets, English.
- Poets, English--Biography.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 305 pages ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Companion to Byron
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars discuss Byron's work in several fascinating contexts: literary history, Byron's life and travels, publishing, politics, and his reception across Europe. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers alike.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Historical Contexts
- 1 Byron's life and his biographers / Paul Douglass 7
- 2 Byron and the business of publishing / Peter W. Graham 27
- 3 Byron's politics / Malcolm Kelsall 44
- 4 Byron: gender and sexuality / Andrew Elfenbein 56
- Part 2 Textual Contexts
- 5 Heroism and history: Childe Harold I and II and the Tales / Philip W. Martin 77
- 6 Byron and the Eastern Mediterranean: Childe Harold II and the 'polemic of Ottoman Greece' / Nigel Leask 99
- 7 1816-17: Childe Harold III and Manfred / Alan Rawes 118
- 8 Byron and the theatre / Alan Richardson 133
- 9 Childe Harold IV, Don Juan and Beppo / Drummond Bone 151
- 10 The Vision of Judgment and the visions of 'author' / Susan J. Wolfson 171
- 11 Byron's prose / Andrew Nicholson 186
- Part 3 Literary Contexts
- 12 Byron's lyric poetry / Jerome McGann 209
- 13 Byron and Shakespeare / Anne Barton 224
- 14 Byron and the eighteenth century / Bernard Beatty 236
- 15 Byron's European reception / Peter Cochran 249
- 16 Byron, postmodernism and intertextuality / Jane Stabler 265.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521781469
- 0521786762
- OCLC:
- 54462015
- Online:
- Publisher description
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