| Contents |
Introduction -- Byron's life and his biographers / Paul Douglass -- 'My pen is at the bottom of a page' / Tom Mole -- Byron's politics / Malcolm Kelsall -- Byron : gender and sexuality / Andrew Elfenbein -- Heroism and history : Childe Harold I and II and the tales / Philip W. Martin -- Byron and the eastern Mediterranean : Childe Harold II and the 'polemic of Ottoman Greece' / Nigel Leask -- 1816-1817 : Childe Harold III and Manfred / Alan Rawes -- Byron and the theatre / Alan Richardson -- Byron's experiments in drama : 1820-1822 / Mirka Horova -- Childe Harold IV, Don Juan and Beppo / Drummond Bone -- Redeeming levity : Byron's Don Juan / Gavin Hopps -- The vision of judgment and the visions of 'author' / Susan J. Wolfson -- Byron's bear and other animals / Anna Camilleri -- Byron's lyric poetry / Jerome Mcgann -- Byron and the eighteenth century / Bernard Beatty -- In Byron's wake / Clara Tuite -- Byron, postmodernism and intertextuality / Jane Stabler -- 'Writing grows a habit' : authorship, addiction and the 'gallanting' poet / Ghislaine Mcdayter. |
| Abstract |
"Deeply informed and appealingly written, this revised and updated second edition gives fresh life to the enthralling sexual, poetic and political contradictions that make Byron the first literary celebrity. An authoritative source for students, this companion also points to emerging new areas of research"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023015870 |
| ISBN | 9781108844888 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781108948968 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
