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| Named Person: | George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron; George Gordon Byron Byron, baron; George Gordon Byron Byron; John Milton; George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jerome J McGann; James Soderholm |
| ISBN: | 0521809584 9780521809580 0521007224 9780521007221 |
| OCLC Number: | 48435470 |
| Description: | ix, 311 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Milton and Byron -- Byron, mobility, and the poetics of historical ventriloquism -- My brain is feminine': Byron and the poetry of deception -- What difference do the circumstances of publication make to the interpretation of a literary work? -- Byron and the anonymous lyric -- Private poetry, public deception -- Hero with a thousand faces: the rhetoric of Byronism -- Byron and the lyric of sensibility -- Byron and Wordsworth -- A point of reference -- History, herstory, theirstory, ourstory -- Literature, meaning, and the discontinuity of fact -- Rethinking romanticism -- An interview with Jerome McGann -- Poetry, 1780-1832 -- Byron and romanticism, a dialogue (Jerome McGann and the editor, James Soderholm). |
| Series Title: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 50. |
| Responsibility: | Jerome J. McGann ; edited by James Soderholm. |
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'[Jerome McGann's] Byron and Romanticism represents a quarter century of important scholarly work on the subtle ironies of Byron's poetry and of the Byzantine connections between that poetry and Byron's complicated life. McGann is especially interested in Byron's complex 'double-speaking'. Here's a critic who understands that Byron is always playing games with his audience - actually, with multiple audiences. And that they are extremely tricky, contradictory games ... McGann's larger aim is to reform literary studies, to bring about a new synthesis of traditional, pragmatic criticism and hyper-sophisticated theory. His book is a step in the right direction toward a reform that the serious study of literature urgently needs ...'. Ron Smith, Richmond Times-Dispatch 'This eclectic, thought-provoking volume is an important addition to the Cambridge series of Studies in Romanticism.' The Byron Journal Read more...
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