The Oxford handbook of Lord Byron / edited by Jonathon Shears and Alan Rawes.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
  • ©2024
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Summary note
This handbook presents 44 groundbreaking chapters that explore Lord Byron's central position in Romantic traditions and his profound and far-reaching influence on British, European, and world culture.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Target audience
Specialized.
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Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 5, 2024).
Contents
  • Cover
  • THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LORD BYRON
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • Part I Works
  • 1. Byron's Early Poetical Practices
  • 2. The Landscapes of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II
  • 3. Gender and Genre in the Turkish Tales (1813-​16)
  • 4. Byron's Lyric Poetry
  • 5. Byron's 'Dramatic Monologues': The Prisoner of Chillon, Mazeppa, 'The Lament of Tasso', and The Prophecy of Dante
  • 6. Exile and Sublimity: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage III, the Separation Poems, and 'Darkness'
  • 7. Byron in Transit: Italy in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage IV and Beppo
  • 8. Uses of the Past in the History Plays
  • 9. Don Juan, Cantos I-​IV
  • 10. Don Juan in the Ottoman East: Dis/​Continuities in Cantos V-​VIII
  • 11. Text and Time in Don Juan, Cantos IX-​XII
  • 12. The Textuality and Intertextuality of Don Juan, Cantos XIII-​XVII
  • 13. The Metaphysical Dramas: Playing Against All Odds
  • 14. Byron's Poetic Endings: The Deformed Transformed, The Vision of Judgment, The Island, and 'On This Day I Complete My Thirty-​Sixth Year'
  • 15. Byron's Letters
  • Part II Biographical Contexts
  • 16. Byron the Aristocrat
  • 17. Byron at Home and Abroad
  • 18. Byron: Libertine, Friend, and Lover
  • 19. Byron contra mundum
  • Part III Literary and Cultural Contexts
  • 20. The Classical Inheritance: Byron and the 'Literary Lower Empire'
  • 21. Byron, Pope, and the Mock-​Epic
  • 22. Byron and the Novel
  • 23. Byron and the Lake Poets
  • 24. 'The Satanic School': Hunt, the Cockneys, and The Liberal
  • 25. Byron and the Theatre: Conjuring the Amphitheatre of Poetry, Press, and Provocation
  • 26. Byron and Italian Literature
  • 27. Byron and Regency Print Culture
  • Part IV Afterlives
  • 28. Byron's Reviewers
  • 29. Byron Biographies, 1824 to the Present: The Shaping of Byron's Legacy
  • 30. Byron and World Literature
  • 31. Byron and the Victorians
  • 32. Byron le diable: The Byronic Hero and the Demonic in Music from Berlioz to Tchaikovsky
  • 33. Byron's Works in Visual Art
  • 34. Byron in Twentieth-​ and Twenty-​First-​Century Literature
  • 35. Byron and the Critics in the New Millennium
  • 36. Isn't it Byronic: Reading Byron in the Social Media Age
  • 37. Editing Byron and Digital Futures
  • Part V Reading Byron Now
  • 38. Byron and Nationalism
  • 39. Reading Byron's Body and Mind
  • 40. Fluid Dynamics: Geology and Evolutionary Physics in Byron
  • 41. Byron's Cosmopolitanism
  • 42. 'The Life We Image': Byron and Sexuality
  • 43. Byron's Celebrity Revisited
  • 44. Byron and Travel
  • Afterword: Byron and the Age of the poète maudit
  • Recommended Reading
  • Index
Other title(s)
  • Handbook of Lord Byron
  • Lord Byron
ISBN
  • 9780191893445 (ebook)
  • 0191893447
  • 9780192536334 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0192536338 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
1450904480
Doi
  • 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808800.001.0001
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