Byron's temperament : essays in body and mind / edited by Bernard Beatty and Jonathon Shears.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beatty, Bernard, editor.

Shears, Jonathon, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Psychology.

Byron, George Gordon Byron.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

This volume is the first to draw together, in eight original essays by international scholars, some of the dominant strains in critical thinking about Byron's temperament and behaviour. Using discourses and paradigms drawn from a variety of disciplines, including literary studies, history of medicine, behaviourism and cultural studies, its contributors explore and synthesise the development of 'behavioural strategies' and their impact on his poetic manner. Studies of the precise relationship of the poet's body and mind have often placed Byron within some of our modern psychological and medical frameworks without acknowledging that these 'diagnoses' are bound up with the complex business of reading and responding to literature. The topic of 'temperament' uniquely allows concurrent discussion of body and mind within the context of Byron's writing, as well as his life. In this sense, the book is primarily literary. Recent scientific or quasi-scientific theory is utilised and not discounted, but the book insists upon the relevance of literary procedures and evidence, broadly understood, which are not dependent upon it and can contribute to, enlarge, or cast doubts upon some of its claims -- Source other than Library of Congress.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One `He Was a Man of Strange Temperament': Reading Byron's Mind and Matter / Bernard Beatty

ch. Two `Una Certa Sprezzatura': Byron's Aristocratic Levity / Gavin Hopps

ch. Three `Eat, drink, and love; the rest's not worth a fillip': Byron's Festive Minds and Bodies / Christine Kenyan Jones

ch. Four `A mind diseased no remedy can physic': Diseases of the Body and Mind in Don Juan / Shona M. Allan

ch. Five Byron's Nervous Breakdown / Peter Cochran

ch. Six Byron's Hypochondria / Jonathan Shears

ch. Seven Spontaneous Outpourings of Grief?: Byron's Temperament in 1811 and 1812 / Shobhana Bhattacharji

ch. Eight Between Two Worlds: Evolution, Speciation, and Extinction in Byron / Hermione de Almeida.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 11, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-9320-X

OCLC:

952337290