The Cambridge Companion to ByronDrummond Bone Cambridge University Press, 2004 M11 18 - 305 pages 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. |
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... Moore b .; John Galt b .; David Garrick d . Gordon Riots . British surrender at Yorktown ; Schiller's Die Räuber ; Kant's Kritik der reinen Vernunft ( Critique of Pure Reason ) . Laclos , Liaisons Dangereuses ; James Watt patents his ...
... Moore b .; John Galt b .; David Garrick d . Gordon Riots . British surrender at Yorktown ; Schiller's Die Räuber ; Kant's Kritik der reinen Vernunft ( Critique of Pure Reason ) . Laclos , Liaisons Dangereuses ; James Watt patents his ...
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... Moore's Irish Melodies ; Mme De Staël's Corinne ; first gas - lights in streets of London . Start of the Peninsular War ; the United States bans the import of slaves ; Convention of Cintra signed ; Leigh Hunt founds The Examiner ...
... Moore's Irish Melodies ; Mme De Staël's Corinne ; first gas - lights in streets of London . Start of the Peninsular War ; the United States bans the import of slaves ; Convention of Cintra signed ; Leigh Hunt founds The Examiner ...
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... Moore to Venice . Gives Moore his memoirs . Moves to Ravenna ; Teresa Guiccioli separates from her husband ; Byron sends Murray Cantos III and iv of Don Juan ; Pope grants Teresa Guiccioli separation ; Byron begins Canto v of Don ...
... Moore to Venice . Gives Moore his memoirs . Moves to Ravenna ; Teresa Guiccioli separates from her husband ; Byron sends Murray Cantos III and iv of Don Juan ; Pope grants Teresa Guiccioli separation ; Byron begins Canto v of Don ...
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... Correspondence of Lord Byron ; Moore's Life of Sheridan and Evenings in Greece ; Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age ; John Quincy Adams becomes President of the USA ; opening of the Stockton and Darlington railway in England . xix CHRONOLOGY.
... Correspondence of Lord Byron ; Moore's Life of Sheridan and Evenings in Greece ; Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age ; John Quincy Adams becomes President of the USA ; opening of the Stockton and Darlington railway in England . xix CHRONOLOGY.
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Contents
Byrons life and his biographers | 7 |
Byron and the business of publishing | 27 |
Byrons politics | 44 |
Byron gender and sexuality | 56 |
Textual Context | 75 |
Heroism and history Childe Harold I and II and the Tales | 77 |
Byron and the Eastern Mediterranean Childe Harold II and the polemic of Ottoman Greece | 99 |
181617 Childe Harold III and Manfred | 118 |
Byrons prose | 186 |
Literary Contexts | 207 |
Byrons lyric poetry | 209 |
Byron and Shakespeare | 224 |
Byron and the eighteenth century | 236 |
Byrons European reception | 249 |
Byron postmodernism and intertextuality | 265 |
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Byron and the theatre | 133 |
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage IV Don Juan and Beppo | 151 |
The Vision of Judgment and the visions of author | 171 |
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