Byron''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.
目錄:
Acknowledgements page
Notes on contributors
Chronology
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Historical Contexts
1. Byron’s life and his biographers
PAUL DOUGLASS
2. Byron and the business of publishing
PETER W. GRAHAM
3. Byron’s politics
MALCOLM KELSALL
4. Byron: gender and sexuality
ANDREW ELFENBEIN
Part 2: Textual Contexts
5. Heroism and history: Childe Harold I and II and the
Tales
PHILIP W. MARTIN
6. Byron and the Eastern Mediterranean: Childe Harold
II and the ‘polemic of Ottoman Greece’
NIGEL LEASK
7. 1816–17: Childe Harold III and Manfred
ALAN RAWES
8. Byron and the theatre
ALAN RICHARDSON
9. Childe Harold IV, Don Juan and Beppo
DRUMMOND BONE
10. The Vision of Judgment and the visions of
‘author’
SUSAN J. WOLFSON
11. Byron’s prose
ANDREW NICHOLSON
Part 3: Literary Contexts
12. Byron’s lyric poetry
JEROME McGANN
13. Byron and Shakespeare
ANNE BARTON
14. Byron and the eighteenth century
BERNARD BEATTY
15. Byron’s European reception
PETER COCHRAN
16. Byron, postmodernism and intertextuality
JANE STABLER
Select bibliography
Further reading
Index