Byron in London / edited by Peter Cochran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cochran, Peter, 1944-

Newstead Abbey Byron Society.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society--England--London--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Cities and towns in literature.

London (England)--Intellectual life--19th century.

London (England).

London (England)--In literature.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Homes and haunts--England--London.

Byron, George Gordon Byron.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

BYRON IN LONDON is a collection of essays by leading authorities on Byron, charting both his life in London and his writings about the capital. Byron emerges from the different perspectives given as one of English poetry's leading urban and metropolitan writers. Chapters are on Byron and the London boxing fraternity, Byron and the London stage, and Byron's attitude to the newly-emerging London coterie of women writers. There is one chapter on his relationship Other John Murray, his London publ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; BYRON'S LONDON REVISITED; LONDON'S GENDERED SPACES; BYRON, THE FLASH AND THE FANCY; BYRON AND ALBEMARLE STREET; BYRON AND THE HELL THAT WAS ST JAMES'S STREET; "A LITTLE ITALIAN BYRON"; BYRON TRIES TO REFORM THE LONDON STAGE; A TOFF IN LONDON; APPENDIX; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

"Many of the papers ... were given at a conference on Byron and London organized by the Newstead Byron Society and the Midland Romantic Seminar at Nottingham Trent University on April 29th 2006"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-270) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-19101-2

9786612191015

1-4438-0725-7

OCLC:

823386205