The Cambridge companion to Byron
By: edited by Drummond Bone.
Contributors: Bone, Drummond.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Poets, English -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other titles: Companion to Byron
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Byron's life and his biographers / Paul Douglass; title: Byron and the business of publishing / Peter W. Graham; title: Byron's politics / Malcolm Kelsall; title: Byron : gender and sexuality / Andrew Elfenbein; title: Heroism and history : Childe Harold I & II and the Tales / Philip W. Martin; title: Byron and the eastern Mediterranean : Childe Harold II and the 'Polemic of Ottoman Greece' / Nigel Leask; title: 1816; title: 17 : Childe Harold III and Manfred / Alan Rawes; title: Byron and the theatre / Alan Richardson; title: Childe Harold IV, Don Juan and Beppo / Drummond Bone; title: The Vision of Judgment and the visions of 'author' / Susan J. Wolfson; title: Byron's Prose / Andrew Nicholson; title: Byron's lyric poetry / Jerome McGann; title: Byron and Shakespeare / Anne Barton; title: Byron and the eighteeth century / Bernard Beatty; title: Byron's European reception / Peter Cochran; title: Byron, postmodernism and intertextuality / Jane Stabler.