The Cambridge Companion to ByronByron'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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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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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Cambridge Companion to Byron Cambridge Companions to Literature Cambridge companions to, Drummond Bone |
| Author | Bone |
| Editors | Drummond Bone, J. Drummond Bone |
| Contributor | Cambridge University Press |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0521786762, 9780521786768 |
| Length | 305 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Poetry |
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