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Author:   Jonathon Shears (Reader in English Literature, Keele University) ,  Alan Rawes (Senior Lecturer in Romanticism, University of Manchester)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.60cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   1.502kg
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9780198808800

ISBN 10:   0198808801
Pages:   784
Publication Date:   17 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Alan Rawes and Jonathon Shears: Introduction Part I. Works 1: Shobhana Bhattacharji: Byron's Early Poetical Practices 2: Stephen Minta: The Landscapes of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II 3: Anna Camilleri: Gender and Genre in the 'Turkish Tales' (1813-16) 4: Jonathon Shears: Byron's Lyric Poetry 5: Bernard Beatty: Byron's 'Dramatic Monologues': The Prisoner of Chillon, Mazeppa, 'The Lament of Tasso', The Prophecy of Dante 6: Philip Shaw: Exile and Sublimity: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage III, the Separation Poems, and 'Darkness' 7: Lilla Maria Crisafulli: Byron in Transit: Italy in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage IV and Beppo 8: Arnold Anthony Schmidt: Uses of the Past in the History Plays 9: Drummond Bone: Don Juan, Cantos I to IV 10: Diego Saglia: Don Juan in the Ottoman East: Dis/Continuities in Cantos V-VIII 11: Gary Dyer: Text and Time in Don Juan, Cantos IX to XII 12: Jane Stabler: The Textuality and Intertextuality of Don Juan, Cantos XIII-XVII 13: Mirka Horová: The Metaphysical Dramas: Playing Against All Odds 14: Matthew Ward: Byron's Poetic Endings: The Deformed Transformed, The Vision of Judgment, The Island, and 'On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year' 15: Anthony Howe: Byron's Letters Part II. Biographical Contexts 16: John Beckett: Byron the Aristocrat 17: Roderick Beaton: Byron at Home and Abroad 18: Jeffery Vail: Byron: Libertine, Friend, and Lover 19: Andrew M. Stauffer: Byron Contra Mundum Part III. Literary and Cultural Contexts 20: Jonathan Sachs: The Classical Inheritance: Byron and the 'literary lower Empire' 21: Nicholas Gayle: Byron, Pope, and the Mock-Epic 22: Peter Graham: Byron and the Novel 23: Simon Bainbridge: Byron and the Lake Poets 24: Jeffrey N. Cox: 'The Satanic School': Hunt, the Cockneys, and The Liberal 25: Michael Simpson: Byron and the Theatre: Conjuring the Amphitheatre of Poetry, Press, and Provocation 26: Alan Rawes: Byron and Italian Literature 27: Mary O'Connell: Byron and Regency Print Culture Part IV. Afterlives 28: Maria Schoina: Byron's Reviewers 29: Jonathan Gross: Byron Biographies, 1824 to the Present: The Shaping of Byron's Legacy 30: Clara Tuite: Byron and World Literature 31: Sarah Wootton: Byron and the Victorians 32: Piya Pal-Lapinski: Byron Le Diable: The Byronic Hero and the Demonic in Music from Berlioz to Tchaikovsky 33: Christine Kenyon Jones: Byron's Works in Visual Art 34: Mark Sandy: Byron in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature 35: Carla Pomarè: Byron and the Critics in the New Millenium 36: Joanna E. Taylor: Isn't it Byronic: Reading Byron in the Social Media Age 37: Paul Curtis: Editing Byron and Digital Futures Part V. Reading Byron Now 38: Martin Procházka: Byron and Nationalism 39: Jonathon Shears: Reading Byron's Body and Mind 40: Hermione de Almeida: Fluid Dynamics: Geology and Evolutionary Physics in Byron 41: Will Bowers: Byron's Cosmopolitanism 42: Ghislaine McDayter: The life we image': Byron and Sexuality 43: Tom Mole: Byron's Celebrity Revisited 44: Carl Thompson: Byron and Travel Jerome McGann: Afterword: Byron and the Age of the poète maudit

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Jonathon Shears is Reader in English Literature at Keele University. He has published widely on Romantic-period writers including The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost (2009) and the co-edited essay collection Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind (2016) which was awarded the Elma Dangerfield Prize. He edited The Byron Journal from 2012 to 2019 and continues to sit on the Editorial Board. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of The Byron Society. His latest monograph is The Hangover: A Literary and Cultural History (2020). Alan Rawes is Senior Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Manchester. His publications include Byron's Poetic Experimentation (2000), English Romanticism and the Celtic World (co-ed., 2003), Romantic Biography (co-ed., 2003), Romanticism and Form (ed., 2007), Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom (co-ed., 2010), a special issue of Litteraria Pragensia on 'Byron in Italy' (co-ed., 2014), and Byron and Italy (co-ed., 2017, winner of the 2018 Elma Dangerfield Prize). He is a past editor of The Byron Journal (2005-12) and was Joint President of the International Association of Byron Societies between 2012 and 2023.

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