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The Cambridge companion to Byron

Drummond Bone (Editor)
Even during his lifetime, Byron's lifestyle excited as much interest as his work. This companion has three sections devoted to the historical, textual & literary contexts of his life & times, with specially commissioned essays exploring topics such as Byron's interest in the East & his attitudes to gender
Print Book, English, 2004
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2004
Handbook
xx, 305 pages ; 24 cm
9780521786768, 9780521781466, 0521786762, 0521781469
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Acknowledgementsvii
Notes on contributorsviii
Chronologyxi
Abbreviationsxx
Introduction1(6)
Part 1 Historical Contexts
1. Byron's life and his biographers
7(20)
PAUL DOUGLASS
2. Byron and the business of publishing
27(17)
PETER W. GRAHAM
3. Byron's politics
44(12)
MALCOLM KELSALL
4. Byron: gender and sexuality
56(21)
ANDREW ELFENBEIN
Part 2: Textual Contexts
5. Heroism and history: Childe Harold I and II and the Tales
77(22)
PHILIP W. MARTIN
6. Byron and the Eastern Mediterranean: Childe Harold II and the 'polemic of Ottoman Greece'
99(19)
NIGEL LEASK
7. 1816-17: Childe Harold III and Manfred
118(15)
ALAN RAWES
8. Byron and the theatre
133(18)
ALAN RICHARDSON
9. Childe Harold IV, Don Juan and Beppo
151(20)
DRUMMOND BONE
10. The Vision of Judgment and the visions of 'author'
171(15)
SUSAN J. WOLFSON
11. Byron's prose
186(23)
ANDREW NICHOLSON
Part 3: Literary Contexts
12. Byron's lyric poetry
209(15)
JEROME McGANN
13. Byron and Shakespeare
224(12)
ANNE BARTON
14. Byron and the eighteenth century
236(13)
BERNARD BEATTY
15. Byron's European reception
249(16)
PETER COCHRAN
16. Byron, postmodernism and intertextuality
265(20)
JANE STABLER
Select bibliography285(7)
Further reading292(5)
Index297