First paperback edition. First published 2020. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
I. Life and Works. Early years / Jonathan Gross -- The years of fame / Diego Saglia --Exile / Jane Stabler -- Texts and editions / Tom Mole -- Byron and his publishers / Mary O'Connell -- Piracies, fakes and forgeries / Gary Dyer -- II. Political, Social, and intellectual transformations. Politics / John Beckett -- War / Neil Ramsey -- Greece's Byron / Spiridoula Demetriou -- Byron's Italy / Timothy Webb -- Orientalism / Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud -- Religion / Christine Kenyon Jones -- Natural philosophy / Thomas H. Ford -- Sexuality / Richard C. Sha -- Libertinism / Adam Komisaruk -- Fashion, self-fashioning and the body / Laura J. George -- III. Literary cultures. Classicism and neoclassicism / Bernard Beatty -- Epic (and historiography) / Carla Pomarè -- Romance / Omar F. Miranda -- Byron's lyric practice / Anna Camilleri -- Satire / Mark Canuel -- The Satanic School / Mirka Horová -- The Lake poets / Madeleine Callaghan -- Byron's accidental muse : Robert Southey / Susan J. Wolfson -- "Benign Ceruleans of the Second Sex!" : Byron and the Bluestockings / Caroline Franklin -- The Pisan Circle and the Cockney School / Maria Schoina -- Drama and theater / Rolf P. Lessenich -- Autobiography / Alan Rawes -- "Literatoor" and literary theory / Clara Tuite -- Periodical culture, the literary review and the mass media / Andrew Franta -- IV. Reception and afterlives. Contemporary critical reception to 1824 / William Christie -- Byron, radicals and reformers / Jason Goldsmith -- European reception / Peter Vassallo -- Recollections, conversations and biographies / Julian North -- Posthumous reception and reinvention to 1900 / Eric Eisner -- Popular culture / Lindsey Eckert -- Byron now / Ghislaine McDayter.
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