The Cambridge Companion to ByronDrummond Bone Cambridge University Press, 2004 M11 18 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. |
Contents
Byron and the business of publishing | |
Byrons politics | |
Childe Harold I and II and the Tales | |
Childe Harold II and the polemic | |
Alan Rawes | |
Byron and the theatre | |
The Vision of Judgment and the visions of author | |
Byrons prose | |
Byrons lyric poetry | |
Byron and Shakespeare | |
Byrons European reception | |
Byron postmodernism and intertextuality | |
Select bibliography | |
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