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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... Death of Byron's father , John Byron . Thomas de Quincey b .; Thomas Love Peacock b .; Lady Caroline Lamb b . John Cam Hobhouse b .; Robert Burns , Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect ; Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro . Signing of the ...
... Death of Byron's father , John Byron . Thomas de Quincey b .; Thomas Love Peacock b .; Lady Caroline Lamb b . John Cam Hobhouse b .; Robert Burns , Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect ; Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro . Signing of the ...
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... Death of William Byron makes George Gordon heir to title and estates . Enters Aberdeen Grammar School . Percy Shelley b .; Samuel Rogers ' Pleasures of Memory , with Other Poems ; Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women ...
... Death of William Byron makes George Gordon heir to title and estates . Enters Aberdeen Grammar School . Percy Shelley b .; Samuel Rogers ' Pleasures of Memory , with Other Poems ; Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women ...
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... Charles Darwin b .; Alfred Tennyson b .; Thomas Paine d . Baillie's Family Legend ; Hogg's Forest Minstrel , Goethe's Pandora ; H. von Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn . 1811 Moved by hearing of the death of John Edleston XV CHRONOLOGY.
... Charles Darwin b .; Alfred Tennyson b .; Thomas Paine d . Baillie's Family Legend ; Hogg's Forest Minstrel , Goethe's Pandora ; H. von Kleist's Käthchen von Heilbronn . 1811 Moved by hearing of the death of John Edleston XV CHRONOLOGY.
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... death of John Edleston , Byron writes poems addressed to ' Thyzra ' . Hears Coleridge lecture . Death , on 1 August , of Byron's mother , Catherine Gordon . He writes ' Hints from Horace ' and The Curse of Minerva . Maiden speech in the ...
... death of John Edleston , Byron writes poems addressed to ' Thyzra ' . Hears Coleridge lecture . Death , on 1 August , of Byron's mother , Catherine Gordon . He writes ' Hints from Horace ' and The Curse of Minerva . Maiden speech in the ...
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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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