The Cambridge companion to Byron /
Contributor(s): Bone, Drummond [editor.].
Series: Cambridge companions to literature: Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: xx, 305 pages ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0521786762; 9780521786768:; 9780521786768; 0521781469; 9780521781466.Other title: Byron.Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Criticism and interpretation | English poetry -- 19th century -- Criticism | RomanticismDDC classification: 809 BONItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 809 BON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0081888 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-296) and index.
Byron's life and his biographers / Paul Douglass -- Byron and the business of publishing / Peter W. Graham -- Byron's politics / Malcolm Kelsall -- Byron : gender and sexuality / Andrew Elfenbein -- Heroism and history : Childe Harold I & II and the Tales / Philip W. Martin -- Byron and the eastern Mediterranean : Childe Harold II and the 'Polemic of Ottoman Greece' / Nigel Leask -- 1816-17 : Childe Harold III and Manfred / Alan Rawes -- Byron and the theatre / Alan Richardson -- Childe Harold IV, Don Juan and Beppo / Drummond Bone -- The Vision of Judgment and the visions of 'author' / Susan J. Wolfson -- Byron's Prose / Andrew Nicholson -- Byron's lyric poetry / Jerome McGann -- Byron and Shakespeare / Anne Barton -- Byron and the eighteenth century / Bernard Beatty -- Byron's European reception / Peter Cochran -- Byron, postmodernism and intertextuality / Jane Stabler.
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.