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Genre/Form: | Handbook Aufsatzsammlung Criticism, interpretation, etc Handbooks and manuals Biografie Guides et manuels Handbooks, manuals, etc Biography Biographies Guides, manuels, etc |
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Named Person: | George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron; George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron; George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron; George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron; George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron; George Gordon Byron Byron |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Drummond Bone |
ISBN: | 0521786762 9780521786768 0521781469 9780521781466 |
OCLC Number: | 54462015 |
Description: | xx, 305 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Byron's life and his biographers / Paul Douglass -- Byron and the business of publishing / Peter W. Graham -- Byron's politics / Malcolm Kelsall -- Byron : gender and sexuality / Andrew Elfenbein -- Heroism and history : Childe Harold I & II and the Tales / Philip W. Martin -- Byron and the eastern Mediterranean : Childe Harold II and the 'Polemic of Ottoman Greece' / Nigel Leask -- 1816-17 : Childe Harold III and Manfred / Alan Rawes -- Byron and the theatre / Alan Richardson -- Childe Harold IV, Don Juan and Beppo / Drummond Bone -- The Vision of Judgment and the visions of 'author' / Susan J. Wolfson -- Byron's Prose / Andrew Nicholson -- Byron's lyric poetry / Jerome McGann -- Byron and Shakespeare / Anne Barton -- Byron and the eighteenth century / Bernard Beatty -- Byron's European reception / Peter Cochran -- Byron, postmodernism and intertextuality / Jane Stabler. |
Series Title: | Cambridge companions to literature. |
Other Titles: | Companion to Byron |
Responsibility: | edited by Drummond Bone. |
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Abstract:
Byron's life and work and the interactions between them have fascinated readers for two hundred years. In three sections devoted to the historical, textual and literary contexts of Byron's life and times, these essays by eminent Byron scholars provide a compelling picture of the diversity of Byron's writings.
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'... this Companion serves its manifold purpose of clarifying difficult points about Byron and his work at the same time as it shows their complexity, and it invites the reader to come or to come back to them. The variety of angles and the crisscrossing of approaches provide an enriched perspective on one of the most significant poets of the Romantic era.' Cercles 'One feels enthusiasm as well as information and interpretation in the Companion. Admirers of Byron's verse as well as newcomers will find that it repays close reading and reference.' Emerald Read more...
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